Transformation of Sentences Test 8

An effective way to make language more emphatic when using English is by inverting a sentence's normal word order.
For example, 'I have never eaten such a flaky croissant.' is a regular sentence, with the word order: subject (I) + verb (have never eaten) + object (such a flaky croissant). To add emphasis, the auxiliary verb comes before the subject: Never have I eaten such a flaky croissant. ('Never' is an adverb and the main verb is 'eaten')
The given sentence is in the normal word order: subject (I) + verb (had hardly left), it must be changed to add emphasis, hence option A is incorrect.
Option C is correct as the normal word order is altered for emphasis, where the auxiliary comes before the subject as it should.
Option B is incorrect because the subject must follow the auxiliary (had), but here it comes after the object (the house).
Option D is incorrect as the than-clause must follow the previous clause to present a contrast, but here it has been brought in the beginning. So the sentence isn't comprehensible.

A sentence is in active or passive voice depending on whether its verb is in active or passive voice. 

A sentence is in active or passive voice depending on whether its verb is in active or passive voice. A verb is in active voice when its form shows that the subject does something. A verb is in passive voice when something is done to the subject. In passive voice, the doer of the action may appear in the phrase, "by .....". This could be one easy way of identifying a sentence in passive voice. However, in some cases, this phrase is omitted.

An adjective is usually placed before the noun that it modifies. This is for an adjective that is in the attributive position, i.e., it comes before the noun. When an adjective is in the predicative position, i.e., when it follows the noun, the adjective does not follow it immediately; it follows a linking verb, thereby complementing the noun. (example: I am tall, I is the pronoun, 'am' is the linking verb and 'tall' is the adjective)
In the given sentence, the underlined word "oval" is an adjective; it follows the noun "mirror". (It cannot modify the verb that it precedes because adjectives don't modify verbs.) Hence option D is incorrect.
Option A is correct because the adjective is placed before the noun "mirror" that it modifies, it describes the shape of the mirror.
In option B, the adjective is placed before the noun "wall", but it doesn't make sense, walls cannot be oval, hence B is incorrect.
In option C, the adjective "oval" is placed before the noun "finish", which is abstract. Abstract nouns are ideas or states (finish means the manner in which an item is completed), they are not concrete, hence they do not have a shape (oval) and C is incorrect.

An effective way to make language more emphatic when using English is by inverting a sentence's normal word order.
For example, 'I have never eaten such a flaky croissant.' is a regular sentence, with the word order: subject (I) + verb (have never eaten) + object (such a flaky croissant).
To add emphasis, the auxiliary verb usually comes before the subject, resulting in the inversion: Never have I eaten such a flaky croissant. ('Never' is an adverb and the main verb is 'eaten')
In option C, the main verb 'excited' comes before the subject 'the people', keeping the rest of the sentence, in the normal word order, intact. Hence this sentence shows inversion and option C is correct.
Option A is incorrect because the sentence is in the normal word order.
Option B is incorrect because this too has a sentence in the normal word order.
Option D is incorrect because the words are not altered in this way: verb + subject + object, but instead this way: verb + object + subject + phrase (that modifies the object). The words are in a jumble, they are incoherent.

An action in a sentence can be represented in two ways, namely active and passive voice.

The passive voice always uses the past participle form of the main verb irrespective of any tense. Only the auxiliary verbs depend upon the sentence given in the active voice.

The correct answer is B) is poured in a cup as the sentence represents present tense and the main verb is used in the third form.

Options 'A' is not correct as the sentence is not in the past tense, 

Option 'C' 'To be pour' cannot be used and the sentence. There are two reasons behind not using it in the sentence: 1) 'To be pour' is grammatically incorrect it should be 'To be poured'. 2) The sentence is not in the future tense, hence 'to be pour' cannot be used in the given sentence.

Option 'D' 'Will poured' is grammatically incorrect because, with 'Will', the first form of the verb is used, hence this is incorrect.

Thus option 'B' is the correct answer. 

As the given sentence in the direct speech is in the simple present tense, we will change it to simple past tense in the indirect speech. 

In the given sentence, which is in active voice: 'Harry' is the subject and 'gate of the chamber' is the object. The main verb is 'open'.