Rules of Transformation:

 

Rules of Transformation:

 

Rules of transformation:

Affirmative and Negative Sentences

 

1. Sentences with 'only/alone', changes into 'none but/nothing but/not more than/not less than'

Examples:

a. Affirmative: A brave man alone can do this.

Negative: None but a brave man can do this.

b. Affirmative: I need a book only.

Negative: I need nothing but a book.

c. Affirmative: I need ten rupees only.

Negative: I don't need more than ten rupees.

 

2. 'Must/have to/can' turns into 'cannot but/help'

Examples:

Affirmative: You have to drink clean water.

Negative: You cannot but drink clean water. / You cannot help drinking clean water.

 

3. 'And/both' becomes 'not only ..but also'

Example:

Affirmative: He ate eggs and vegetables.

Negative: He ate not only eggs but also vegetables.

4. 'Every' becomes 'there is no ...but'

Example:

Affirmative: Every mother loves her child. 

Negative: There is no mother but loves her child.

Note:

In case of 'everybody', an affirmative sentence can also be changed into negative using 'nobody' and 'opposite of verb/adjective':

Example:

Affirmative: Everybody likes flowers.

Negative: Nobody dislikes flowers.

6. Generally ‘Universal truths’ are changed into 'interrogative negative sentences’:

 

Example:

Affirmative: Knowledge is power

Negative: Isn't knowledge power?

 

7. Many affirmative can be changed into negative by using negative word 'Not' and an ‘opposite word' of the verb:

 

Example:

Affirmative: I missed the train.

Negative: I could not catch the train.

 

8. "Sometimes' in affirmative becomes 'not always' in negative:

 

Example:

Affirmative: The poor are sometimes happy. 

Negative: The poor are not always happy.

 

9. ‘Many’ becomes 'not a few':

 

Example:

Negative: I don't have many dolls.

Affirmative: I have a few dolls.

 

10. "Too..to in affirmative becomes 'so... that ...+ cannot + verb':

 

Example:

Affirmative: He is too weak to walk.

Negative: He is so weak that he cannot walk

 

11. "As soon as in Affirmative becomes 'No sooner had...than in Negative:

 

Example:

Affirmative: As soon as he came, the students stood up.

Negative: No sooner had he come than the students stood up.

 

12. 'As+ adjective + as" in affirmative becomes 'not less + adjective... than in negative sentence:

 

Example:

Affirmative: Rahim is as good as Karim. 

Negative: Rahim is not less good than Karim

 

Exceptional:

Affirmative: Where there is smoke, there is fire.

Negative: There can be no smoke without fire.

Affirmative: All must die

Negative: None can escape death.

Affirmative: I come here for the last time. 

Negative: I will never come here again.