Grammar Worksheet

Rewrite in the ways instructed .
1 We can accept our life gracefully.(Rewrite it using the modal auxiliary showing compulsion ) 
2.Chaitanya offered to buy the tickets for us.(Rewrite it using 'ing' form of the word underlined ) 
3. Why do normal people feel that they are 'full' and others like Chaitanya are half or incomplete?(Change it into an assertive sentence ) 
4. ____my friend is __ able translator and ____ impartial editor.(Rewrite it using appropriate articles ) 
5. I was ____my regular walk through the forest ____9 a.m.(Fill in the blanks with proper preposition ) 
6. I whispered to him hesitantly, "Could you stay here for a day ?" Gandhiji said."It is very difficult ."(Change it into indirect speech.) 
7. You could pay eight times the going rate for a 'lightening call'.(Rewrite it using modal auxiliary showing compulsion.) 
8. I spent my high school years in Calcutta.(Rewrite it using past perfect tense ,) 
9. Telephones were a rarity.(Make it a rhetorical question ) 
10. Our young people spend more time before their T.V.set than in their classrooms .(Change it into positive degree ) 
11. The T.V. does serve as a medium of education as well as an entertainment .(Rewrite it using 'not only...... but also ) 
12. I considerT.V. as one of the greatest scientific achievements of our times . (Rewrite it using the noun form of the underlined word ) 
13. This time Dell made 18000 and bought an expensive B M W car. (Make a simple sentence) 
14. Diamond is a costly metal. (Rewrite into Superlative Degree) 
Answer Key 
1 We must accept our life gracefully. 
2 Chaitanya offered for buying the tickets for us . 
3 I wonder why do normal people feel that theyare 'full' and others like Chaitanya are half or incomplete . 
4 My friend is __an__able translator and __an__impartial editor as well. 
5 I was __on __my regular walk through theforest ___at_9 a.m. 
6 I asked him in whisper hesitantly if he could stay there for a day , Gandhiji said that it was very difficult . 
7 You must pay eight times the going rate for a 'lightening call'. 
8 I had spent my high school years in Calcutta. 
9 Weren't telephones a rarity? 
10 Our young people do not spend as much time in their classroom as they do before their T.V.set . 
11 The T.V. does serve not only as a medium of education but also an entertainment . 
12 It is my consideration that T.V. is one of the greatest scientific achievements of our times . 
13 This time making 18000 Dell bought an expensive B M W car. 
14 Superlative: Diamond is the costliest metal.Comparative : Diamond is costlier than any other metal.