Question

He retold the whole story after he had heard it only once with great accuracy.
Choose the option that best corrects the sentence.
A) No change
B) He retold the whole story only once with great accuracy after he had heard it.
C) He retold the whole story with great accuracy after he had heard it only once.
D) With great accuracy, he retold the story only once after he had heard it.

Answer 1

Hint: The above question asks us to correct the given sentence to get the desired meaning. This is the task of interchanging sentences. Interchanging sentences means to interchange the words of a sentence, so that the sentence makes sense.

Complete answer:
The transformation or conversion of a sentence means changing its form without altering its sense.
Now let us analyze the given options to get the correct answer.
Option A) No change: The above option is incorrect as the above option which is the given sentence itself doesn’t stick to the goal of the sentence and change the meaning of the statement.
Option B) He retold the whole story only once with great accuracy after he had heard it: The above option is incorrect as the above sentence doesn’t stick to the goal of the sentence and change the meaning of the statement. Here, telling a story ‘only once’ is important.
Option C) He retold the whole story with great accuracy after he had heard it only once: The above option is correct, since the word ‘story’ is modified by ‘with great accuracy’, these should be placed close together. The sentence gives out the correct meaning, that is he succeeded in telling the whole story correctly even though he had only heard it once. Thus, the given statement succeeded in producing desired context.
Option D) With great accuracy, he retold the story only once after he had heard it: The above option is incorrect as the above sentence doesn’t stick to the goal of the sentence and change the meaning of the statement.

Note: The rules regarding transformation or interchanging of sentences are:
- When there is both an indirect object and a direct object in a sentence, the indirect precedes the direct.
- While using an adjective attributively, it should come before the noun which it qualifies.
- While using an adjective predicatively, it should come after the noun.
- Exclamatory sentences should be changed into assertive sentences by removing the exclamation mark and adding words as necessary. Assertive sentences can also be changed to exclamatory sentences in the same way.