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Grammar / Language Study (Non-Textual Grammar) – Do as directed:
(i) We can accept our life gracefully. (Rewrite using modal auxiliary showing 'compulsion')
(ii) As I entered the post office, the Post Master presented me with a telegram. (Begin the sentence with "No sooner...")
(iii) The mother looks after her child. (Make it a rhetorical question)
Grammar / Language Study (Non-Textual Grammar) – Do as directed:
(i) We can accept our life gracefully. (Rewrite using modal auxiliary showing 'compulsion')
(ii) As I entered the post office, the Post Master presented me with a telegram. (Begin the sentence with "No sooner...")
(iii) The mother looks after her child. (Make it a rhetorical question)
(i) We can accept our life gracefully. (Rewrite using modal auxiliary showing 'compulsion')
(ii) As I entered the post office, the Post Master presented me with a telegram. (Begin the sentence with "No sooner...")
(iii) The mother looks after her child. (Make it a rhetorical question)
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Modal auxiliaries like "must" indicate obligation, while "No sooner...than" structures require verb inversion and past perfect for past events.
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(i) The original sentence uses "can," indicating ability or possibility. To show compulsion, the modal auxiliary "must" is used, implying obligation.
Rewritten: We must accept our life gracefully.
(ii) To begin with "No sooner," invert the subject and auxiliary verb (past perfect "had" for past tense), and replace "as" with "than" to form the correlative structure.
Rewritten: No sooner had I entered the post office than the Post Master presented me with a telegram.
(iii) A rhetorical question implies an obvious answer for effect. Transform the declarative sentence by adding "Does...not" to emphasize the mother's role.
Rewritten: Does the mother not look after her child?
Rewritten: We must accept our life gracefully.
(ii) To begin with "No sooner," invert the subject and auxiliary verb (past perfect "had" for past tense), and replace "as" with "than" to form the correlative structure.
Rewritten: No sooner had I entered the post office than the Post Master presented me with a telegram.
(iii) A rhetorical question implies an obvious answer for effect. Transform the declarative sentence by adding "Does...not" to emphasize the mother's role.
Rewritten: Does the mother not look after her child?
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