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4. She suffers from asthma attacks in winter.

5. I wish I had remembered the details.

6. His friendliness endears him to people.

7. The Indus Valley Civilisation is not the oldest civilisation in the world.

8. Learn to respect rational debate, even when it defeats you.

9. His brilliant plan amazed me.

10. Some people find it difficult to communicate their thoughts.

4. By changing a positive sentence into a negative one, and vice versa

This can be done primarily with assertive sentences, but it can even be done with
interrogative, exclamatory and imperative sentences. For example,
• I always wake up at the crack of dawn. (assertive)
I never fail to wake up at the crack of dawn.

• My brother goes to sleep later than me. (assertive)
I do not go to sleep as late as my brother does. (used when there is some
comparison involved)
• Why were you impolite to the guests? (interrogative)
Why weren’t you polite to the guests?

• May you never know sorrow! (exclamatory)
May you know only joy!
• Be quiet! (imperative)
Don’t make so much noise!

B. Transform the following sentences by changing them from positive to
negative, or vice versa.

1. He is not as tall as I am. (Begin with I am...)

2. Never underestimate your opponent. (Begin with Always...)

3. Ramu, only you can win us the match. (Begin with No one...)

4. This is the time to think practically. (Begin with This is not...)

5. Why are you starving the dog? (Begin with Why are you not...)

6. The child’s temperature is not coming down. (Use remains high)
7. Stay still! It’s a snake. (Begin with Do not...)

8. He was unmoved by her outburst. (Begin with Her outburst...)

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