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Sentence Transformation Exercise 11

In these exercises, you need to take the information in the first sentence and re-write it, using the word in bold so that the second sentence has exactly the same meaning. You cannot change the word in bold in ANY way. You can use only a maximum of FIVE words for each space. Only use contractions for negatives: e.g. don't / hadn't / wouldn't, etc.

1. It was silly of you to speak to your boss like that.
spoken
You boss like that!

2. What do you advise me to do?
I
What ?

3. There are always a lot of cars in the downtown area at this time.
traffic
There is in the downtown area at this time.

4. Is it possible to smoke in this room?
allowed
Is this room?

5. She was taken in an ambulance five minutes ago
hospital
They five minutes ago.

6. Chicago is a big city, but Los Angeles is bigger.
not
Chicago Los Angeles.

7. That story he told sounded very invented.
made
I'm sure that story .

8. Who owns this pen?
belong
Who to?