Transformation

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How to solve: TransformationPairs of sentences: choose every pair where the second sentence is a correct transformation of the first.

What it tests

Reported speech and rephrasing: tense backshift, pronouns, time and place words, word order in reported questions, reporting verbs.

In the exam: part VI, 5 tasks. A task scores only when all your choices are right.

Step by step

For each pair compare meaning first: does the second sentence say the same thing?
Check the tense shift: will → would, am → was, did → had done.
Check pronouns and time words: I → he, tomorrow → the next day, now → then, here → there.
Reported questions use statement word order and no do/did: asked where I lived.
Check the reporting verb pattern: told me to…, asked if…, warned not to….

Watch out for

Keeping question word order in reported speech: asked where did I live ✕.
Forgetting to change tomorrow, today, here.
said to me vs told me; asked if with an extra what.

Example

“Do you want to buy any newspapers?” said Jack. → Jack asks if I wanted to buy any newspapers.

Wrong — the reporting verb must be past (asked), matching wanted.

Exercise 1

SELECT ALL CORRECT ANSWERS

Select all correctly transformed sentences.

1)“I am going to call him this afternoon,” she said.
She said that she was going to call him that afternoon.2)Bella says to her brother: “Where are you planning to go this summer?”
Bella asked her brother where he was planning to go this summer.3)“Don't forget to buy some milk, Andy,” said Clare.
Clare reminded Andy to buy some milk.4)“Me? No, I didn't take Sue's calculator,” said Bob.
Bob denied taking Sue's calculator.5)The secretary asked me to fill up that form.
“Would you like to fill up this form?” said the secretary.