Question

Transform the following sentence from interrogative to assertive sentence:
How can you perform well except by performing courageously?
A) You cannot perform well except by performing courageously.
B) You can perform well except by performing courageously.
C) You can perform well and performing courageously.
D) You can perform well by performing courageously.

Answer 1

Hint: Interrogative sentences always ask a question and it will end with a question mark. Assertive sentences are those sentences that make a statement and they are also called declarative sentences and assertive sentences end with a period or full stop at the end of the sentence. For example, He is intelligent? – interrogative sentence; He isn’t intelligent – assertive sentence.

Complete answer:
Let us analyze the given options:
Option A) You cannot perform well except by performing courageously – this is one of the rules of transformation of interrogative sentences into assertive sentences is that if the interrogative sentence is the positive sentence, then we have to add “cannot” to make it an assertive sentence. Therefore, ‘You cannot perform well except by performing courageously’ is the most appropriate answer. Therefore, this is the correct answer.

Option B) You can perform well except by performing courageously – this sentence itself is a positive sentence and this cannot be transformed into an assertive sentence. To make the sentence assertive we have to put cannot in the sentence and make the sentence negative. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.

Option C) You can perform well and performing courageously – assertive sentences are negative if interrogative sentences are positive. So, here in this question, the given sentence is a positive sentence. To make it assertive we have to convert the sentence into a negative sentence. There this option is a positive sentence, so, we will not take this as an assertive sentence. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.

Option D) You can perform well by performing courageously – The given sentence in the question is a positive sentence, to make it an assertive sentence we have to use ‘cannot’ in the sentence. However, this option is again a positive sentence rather than a negative one. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.

Interrogative sentence: How can you perform well except by performing courageously?
Assertive sentence: You cannot perform well except by performing courageously.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note: It is very important to understand two rules of transforming assertive into interrogative and vice versa.
1) If the interrogative sentence is a positive sentence and we have to convert that sentence into a negative sentence to make it an assertive sentence by adding ‘not’ in the positive sentence to make it negative.
2) When converting assertive into interrogative sentences we have to remove the negative if the assertive sentence is in the negative form and end it by putting a question mark at the end of the sentence.