Question

Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed:
a)When I saw the prizes, I was stupefied
  (Rewrite the sentence using ‘No sooner… than’.)
b)He was still lagging behind the expected standard of learning, but it was okay.
  (Rewrite the sentence using ‘Although’.)
c)He started developing an all-round interest in craft and sports.
   (Rewrite the sentence using the infinitive form of the word underlined).

Answer 1

Hint: 1)The phrase ‘no sooner… than’ is used to denote two events, one happening immediately after the other.
2)The word ‘although’ is a conjunction, which has synonyms like but, however and though.
3)An infinitive form of a verb is the verb in its original form without applying any suffix.


Complete step by step answer:
a) The given sentence ‘When I saw the prizes, I was stupefied’ contains two events- Event 1: the author of the sentence seeing the prizes; Event 2: the author feeling stupefied. As per rule of English grammar, the part of sentence reflecting event 1 needs to follow ‘no sooner’ and the part of sentence reflecting event 2 needs to follow ‘than’. Therefore, the sentence can be rewritten as follows:

  ‘No sooner did I see the prizes than I was stupefied.’

b)In the given sentence, ‘He was still lagging behind the expected standard of learning, but it was okay’, ‘but’ the synonym of ‘although’ is present. Therefore, ‘but’ has to be replaced by ‘although’ and the sentence to be rewritten in the following manner:

  ‘Although he was still lagging behind the expected standard of learning, it was okay.’

c)An infinitive form of the verb ‘developing’ is ‘develop’. As per rule of English grammar, an infinitive form of a verb is always preceded by the word ‘to’. Therefore, the sentence ‘He started developing an all-round interest in craft and sports’ can be rewritten as follows:

  ‘He started to develop an all-round interest in craft and sports.’

Note:
1)It must be kept in mind that ‘did see’ is the correct application rather than the word ‘saw’ after ‘no sooner’.

2)It must be kept in mind that ‘although’ is always used in the beginning of a sentence.

3)It must be kept in mind that only the verb must be changed and no other part of the sentence.