Page 160 - New Grammar with a Smile 7
P. 160
7. Do you enjoy playing tennis when your clients are waiting for you?
8. Do the children not practise the piano every evening?
9. Jagruti goes to school by bus.
6. By interchanging exclamations and statements.
y Exclamation: How beautiful the moon is!
Statement: The moon is really beautiful.
y Exclamation: Would that I were a bird!
Statement: I wish I were a bird.
y Statement: The rose smells sweet.
Exclamation: How sweet the rose smells!
y Exclamation: If only we could meet!
Statement: I wish we could meet.
y Statement: I am sorry I missed the chance.
Exclamation: Alas! I missed the chance.
F. Transform the exclamations into statements and vice versa.
1. How beautiful the lady is!
2. I wish I were present in the meeting.
3. This night is very beautiful.
4. The film is really very fine.
5. Hooray! We are going on a picnic.
6. Wow! He got the prize.
7. Aha! Mother has come back!
8. I wish I had wings.
9. It is sad to think we’ll never meet again.
10. The grass is very soft.
160
