Transforming Simple Sentences into Complex Sentences, Exercises of English Language

Download Transforming Simple Sentences into Complex Sentences and more Exercises English Language in PDF only on Docsity! Transforming Simple Sentences into Complex Sentences: Converting Simple Sentences into Complex Sentences can be done easily. And this can be done by simply expanding a word or a phrase into a clause. Moreover, we can do the same thing when we want to change the Complex Sentences into Simple Sentences. And this can be done by eliminating a clause into a word or a phrase. Few examples are given below to understand the concept and conventional rules of transforming between Simple Sentence and Complex Sentences:- Rule: 1: “Present participle” in a simple sentence, to convert into complex sentences by adding “since/as/when” at the first half of the sentence. • Simple Sentence: Closing the door, I went back to school. • Complex Sentence: When I closed the door, I went back to school. Rule: 2 “Being/ Verb+ing” in a simple sentence, to convert into a complex sentence by adding “as/when/since” at the first half of the sentence. • Simple Sentence: After winning a beauty contest she cried. • Complex Sentence: As she won the beauty contest, she cried. Rule: 3 “Too…to” in a simple sentence, to convert into a complex sentence by adding “so…that (negative)”. • Simple Sentence: He is too weak to carry the box. • Complex Sentence: He is so weak that he cannot carry the box. Rule: 4 “To” in the simple sentence, to convert into a complex sentence by adding “so that” in the sentence. • Simple sentence: We eat to live. • Complex Sentence: We eat so that we can live. Rule: 5 In the simple sentence “in spite of/ despite”, to convert into the complex sentence by adding “though/ although” in the sentence. • Simple Sentence: In spite of being rich, she is hard working. • Complex Sentence: Though she is rich, she is hard working. Rule: 6 “Because of” in the simple sentence, to convert it to the complex sentence by adding “since” at the beginning of the sentence. • Simple Sentence: Because of his illness, he could not join the meeting. • Complex Sentence: Since he was ill, he could not join the meeting. Rule: 7