Unit 2 - 2.6 Science and Spirituality — English STD 10 — Question

Change the following sentence into the passive voice:
Her angry question still shakes me.

Frame 'Wh'-questions to get the underlined parts as the answers:
(1) Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles.
(2) Many a happy hour she had spent planning something nice for him.

Complete the following sentences with the help of the given sentences:
(1) The biggest challenge knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
(a) No other challenge knocking ________________________________________________.
(b) Fear and intolerance are bigger ______________________________________________.

I am not allowed to read comics at home.(Pick out the infinitive.)

Rewrite as directed, without changing the meaning:
(1) The reader can read his work again and again and find new layers of meaning.
(Begin the sentence with 'On reading....")
(2) As the novel progresses, the old man and the marlin are inseparably linked.
(Rewrite using 'progress' as a noun.)
(3) When I first read this novel, I was unimpressed.
(Rewrite using 'but' as a coordinator.)

Rewrite the following sentences as
(a) compound sentences (b) simple sentences:
(i) When I reached the station I did not stop at the ticket office.
(ii) When the train had gone, I found myself standing alone on the deserted platform.

Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table. (Rewrite beginning 'Drawing....".)

Pick out the verbs from the following sentences and state their tense :
(1) I met a small, skinny child labourer.
(2) I am representing here - the sound of silence.

Don't waste it. (Rewrite without 'don't.)

It was very clear. (Rewrite as an exclamatory sentence.)