Textual Grammar
1. The root is to be pulled out. [Change the Voice]
Ans: Somebody is to pull out the root.
2. Hack and chop it. [Change the Voice]
Ans: You are ordered to hack and chop it.
3. It is to be roped. [Change the Voice]
Ans: Someone is to rope it.
4. Then it is done. [Change the Voice]
Ans: Then men do it.
5. It takes much time to kill a tree. [Change the Voice]
Ans: Much time is taken to kill a tree.
6. Not a simple jab of the knife will do it. [Change the Voice]
Ans: It will not be done by a simple jab of the knife.
7. Not a simple jab of the knife will do it. [ Make it affirmative]
Ans: A simple jab of the knife will keep it undone.
8. Not so much pain will do it. [Make it affirmative]
Ans: So much pain is insufficient to do it.
9. But this alone won’t do it. [Make it affirmative]
Ans: But this alone is insufficient to do it.
10. It takes much time to kill a tree. [ Make it negative]
Ans: It does not take a little time to kill a tree.
11. If unchecked they will expand again. [ Make it negative]
Ans: If not checked they will expand again.
12. It has grown slowly. [ Use the adjective form of ‘slowly’]
Ans: It has grown in a slow manner.
13. The source, white and wet, is the most sensitive.[Change to comparative degree]
Ans: The source, white and wet, is more sensitive than any other part.
14. It has consumed the earth. It has grown slowly. [ Join into a simple sentence]
Ans: Consuming the earth, it has grown slowly.
15. Hack and chop. This alone won’t do it. [Join into a compound sentence]
Ans: Hack and chop but this alone won’t do it.
16. The source is white and wet. It is the most sensitive one. [Join into a complex sentence]
Ans: The source which is white and wet, is the most sensitive one.
17. The bleeding bark will heal and from close to the ground will rise curled green twigs. [Split into simple sentences]
Ans: The bark is bleeding. It will heal. Curled green twigs will rise from close to the ground.
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