Level 3 Exam-Pattern Test — Advanced Transformation & Synthesis
8 Questions • 15 min • Chapter MCQ
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Question 1 of 8
Reporting-verb passive: 'Everyone knows that he cheated.'
He is known to have cheated.
He knows he cheated.
It knows that he cheated.
He is knowing to cheat.
Explanation: 'He is known to have cheated.' (perfect infinitive for a past action).
Question 2 of 8
Transform with inversion: 'The moment he sat down, the bell rang.'
No sooner had he sat down than the bell rang.
No sooner he sat down than the bell rang.
No sooner did he sat down than the bell rang.
No sooner the bell rang he sat down.
Explanation: 'No sooner had he sat down than …'.
Question 3 of 8
Change the voice: 'One should keep one's promises.'
Promises should be kept.
Promises should keep.
One's promises should keeping.
Promises are should kept.
Explanation: Generic agent dropped: 'Promises should be kept.'
Question 4 of 8
Convert to positive degree: 'Few cities in India are as old as Varanasi.'
Varanasi is one of the oldest cities in India.
Varanasi is the old city.
Varanasi is older than cities.
Varanasi is as old as cities.
Explanation: 'Few … as … as' → 'one of the oldest'.
Question 5 of 8
Combine using an absolute phrase: 'The rain stopped. The match resumed.'
The rain having stopped, the match resumed.
The rain stopped and resumed the match.
Stopping the rain, the match resumed.
The match resumed the rain stopped.
Explanation: Absolute construction: 'The rain having stopped, …'.
Question 6 of 8
Change the narration & keep meaning: 'He said, "Alas! I have lost everything."'
He exclaimed with sorrow that he had lost everything.
He said he lost everything alas.
He asked if he had lost everything.
He told that everything he lost.
Explanation: Exclamation of sorrow → 'exclaimed with sorrow that …'.
Question 7 of 8
Rewrite using 'It was … who/that' (cleft) to emphasise the doer: 'Patience won the case.'
It was patience that won the case.
It was the case that won patience.
What won was the case patience.
Patience it was the case won.
Explanation: It-cleft emphasising 'patience'.
Question 8 of 8
Choose the correct conditional inversion: 'If it should rain, the event will be moved indoors.'
Should it rain, the event will be moved indoors.
Were it rain, the event will be moved.
Had it rain, the event will be moved.
Did it rain, the event will move.
Explanation: Inversion with 'should': 'Should it rain, …'.