Question

Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed:
(i)When I saw the prizes, I was stupefied.
(Rewrite the sentence using ‘No sooner … than’.)
(ii)He was still lagging behind the expected standard of learning, but it was okay.
(Rewrite the sentence using ‘Although’.)
(iii)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: When you begin a sentence with ‘no sooner’, it becomes conjunction. These conjunctions are used to join sentences with two main subject matters. ‘Although’ is also one of these conjunctions. Complete answer:
In grammar, conjunction may be a part of speech that
connects words, phrases, or clauses that are called the conjuncts of the conjunctions.
Conjunctions have a crucial function because they join other words and phrases
together. Without conjunctions, we could only make very, very simple sentences. Some
conjunctions contain multiple words. They are called correlative conjunctions.

So, the first sentence will be split up into two parts: The first part will be ‘I saw the prizes’ and the second part will be ‘I was stupefied’. These will be surrounded by the correlative conjunctions. This is the appropriate place to put the conjunctions:
-No sooner I saw the prizes than I was stupefied.

Simple conjunctions are words that join words and phrases together. For example, words like ‘and’, ‘because’, etc, are all conjunctions.

There are bigger conjunctions in this group, which are preferred to be placed at the beginning of the sentence, as they tend to make the sentence clumpy when placed in the middle. The other conjunction ‘but’ in the given sentence will be omitted. So, the second answer will be as follows:
-Although he was still lagging behind the expected standard of learning, it was okay.

An infinitive is formed from a verb but doesn’t necessarily do the job of a verb. It behaves as either a noun, adjective, or adverb. It is constructed in the following way: to + verb. These two words together act as an infinitive. Infinitives are a form of a non-finite verb, meaning they are not subject to change in any form. The word underlined in the sentence is ‘developing’ which is the continuous form of the root verb. The root verb is ‘develop’. The infinitive of this verb is ‘to develop’.

Note: Break the given questions down. Study each part carefully. Then, go through the given questions and answer each question with the answer which best fits the given
requirements of the question.