This table below summarizes the conventional rules of transforming between simple,complex and compound sentences.You can download this one page pdf of the same table and print it for convenience.When solving transformation questions,look up the table.Later you will be able to solve without taking a look.Download now.Click here
Also don’t forget to recap what simple,complex and compound sentences are!Click here
Sentence
Compound:and,or,nor,yet,but; Complex:wh words,since,that,though
| Simple
to We read to learn Inspite of/Despite Despite being poor he is honest.
Verb+ing Being punished he wept. enough/too ….to He is too weak to walk. Without
Without reading you will fail.
at the time
He woke up at the time of raining Adjective It was a red ball. | Complex
so that We read so that we can learn Though/Although Though he is poor he is honest.
Since/As As he was punished, he wept. so…..that(negative) He is so weak that he can not walk. If/In case
If you do not read you will fail when
He woke up when it was raining. that/which It was a ball that/which was red. | Compound
and /or We read and we learn but He is poor but he is honest.
and so He was punished and so he wept.
very…..and He is very weak and he can not walk. or
Read or fail/you will fail. and
It was raining and he woke up. and It was a ball and it was red. |