Part A: Common Sentence Errors (Correction)
1. Subject-Verb Agreement Errors:
- ✗ "The quality of the mangoes were good." → ✓ "...the mangoes was good."
- ✗ "Each of the boys have done." → ✓ "...boys has done."
2. Pronoun Errors:
- ✗ "Everyone should do their duty." → ✓ "...should do his duty." (formal)
- ✗ "Between you and I." → ✓ "Between you and me." (after preposition → object form)
3. Adjective/Adverb Errors:
- ✗ "He is more better than me." → ✓ "He is better than me."
- ✗ "He is the most tallest boy." → ✓ "He is the tallest boy."
4. Preposition Errors:
- ✗ "He entered into the room." → ✓ "He entered the room." (enter = transitive)
- ✗ "He discussed about the matter." → ✓ "He discussed the matter."
- ✗ "He reached at Dhaka." → ✓ "He reached Dhaka."
- ✗ "He married with her." → ✓ "He married her."
5. Redundancy Errors:
- ✗ "Return back" → ✓ "Return" (return = come back)
- ✗ "Repeat again" → ✓ "Repeat"
- ✗ "Revert back" → ✓ "Revert"
- ✗ "Free gift" → ✓ "Gift"
6. Word Confusion:
- principal (head) vs principle (rule)
- advice (noun) vs advise (verb)
- accept (গ্রহণ করা) vs except (ছাড়া)
- affect (verb) vs effect (noun)
- lose (হারানো) vs loose (ঢিলা)
- stationery (কাগজপত্র) vs stationary (স্থির)
Part B: Sentence Transformation
1. Affirmative ↔ Negative:
- Aff: "Only he can do it." → Neg: "None but he can do it."
- Aff: "He is too weak to walk." → Neg: "He is so weak that he cannot walk."
- Aff: "Everybody loves him." → Neg: "There is nobody who does not love him."
- Aff: "As soon as he came, I left." → Neg: "No sooner had he come than I left."
2. Simple ↔ Complex ↔ Compound:
| Simple |
Complex |
Compound |
| In spite of being poor, he is happy. |
Though he is poor, he is happy. |
He is poor but he is happy. |
| Being ill, he was absent. |
As/Since he was ill, he was absent. |
He was ill and so he was absent. |
3. Assertive ↔ Interrogative:
- "Nobody can deny it." → "Who can deny it?" (rhetorical)
- "Everybody knows it." → "Who doesn't know it?"
4. Exclamatory ↔ Assertive:
- "What a beautiful day!" → "It is a very beautiful day."
- "How kind you are!" → "You are very kind."
5. Degree Change:
- Positive: "No other city in Bangladesh is as big as Dhaka."
- Comparative: "Dhaka is bigger than any other city in Bangladesh."
- Superlative: "Dhaka is the biggest city in Bangladesh."