Transformations

Transformation is changing the form of a sentence without changing its meaning.A brief direction about doing transformation is given below.

Sentences in the form Interrogative, Affirmative and Negative

Interogative	Affirmative	Negative
Does he sing a song?	He sings a song.	He does not sing a song.
Does he play football?	He plays football.	He does not play football.
Can he drive a bus?	He can drive a bus.	He cannot drive a bus.
Did Anu write some poems?	Anu wrote some poems.	Anu did not write any poems.

Note:

• If there is an auxiliary verb in a sentence, do not change the form of a main verb while transforming a sentence.
• If there is not an auxiliary verb in a sentence, always change the forms of verb when we add or remove did/does to transform sentence.

Structure for sentences with auxiliary verb:

Sub+ aux+ verb+.................(affirmative) - He should inform to the police

Sub+ aux+ not+ verb+........(negative) - He should not inform to the police

Sub+ sub+ verb+..................?(interrogative) - Should he inform to the police?

Structure for sentences without auxiliary verb:

Sub+ main verb+.................. ..... (affirmative)

Sub+ do/did/does+ not+verb(1)..........(negative)

Do/does/Did+sub+verb(1)............?(interrogative)

• Use do not or do if there is a V¹.
• Use does not or does if there is a V⁵.
• Use did not or did if there is a V².

General rules:

1. We usually change affirmative imperatives into negative as follows:

• Verb+...........
• Do not+verb+.......
• Let+ object+ verb+.....
• Let+ object+not+ verb+.....

2. These words change while transforming sentences.

• Some- any
• and so- and neither
• already- yet
• too- either
• a lot of- much/many

3. Only changing the following words, we can change the sentences into negative.

• always - never
• either...or... - neither...nor..
• some - no
• some of/any of- none of