Do as directed:
1. The invisible worm has found out your bed. [Change the voice]
Answer: Your bed has been found out by the invisible worm.
2. His dark, secret love destroys your life. [Change the voice]
Answer: Your life is destroyed by his dark, secret love.
3. The poet says, “Oh rose! you are sick”. [Change the mode of narration]
Answer: The poet exclaims with sorrow that the rose is sick.
4. The poet says, “The invisible worm has found out your bed.” [Change the mode of narration]
Answer: The poet says that the invisible worm has found out her bed.
5. The invisible worm flies in the howling storm. [Change into complex and compound sentences]
Answer: The invisible worm flies in the storm which is howling. [complex]
The invisible worm flies in the storm and it is howling. [compound]
6. His dark secret love does thy life destroy.( Complex sentence)
Answer: His love which is dark and secret does thy life destroy.
7. His love is darkest of all. [Change the degree of comparison]
Answer: Positive: None other’s love is as dark as his.
Comparative: His love is darker than that of anybody.
8. The worm is invisible. It flies in the night. [Join into simple, complex and compound sentences]
Answer: Simple: The invisible worm flies in the night.
Complex: The worm which is invisible flies in the night.
Compound: The worm is invisible and it flies in the night.
9. His love is dark. His love is secret. It destroys your life. [Join the sentences into simple, complex and compound sentences]
Answer: Simple: His dark secret love destroys your life.
Complex: His love which is dark and secret destroys your life.
Compound: His love is dark and secret and it destroys your life.
10. The invisible worm flies in the night. [Split into simple sentences]
Answer: The worm is invisible. It flies in the night.
11. The Invisible worm that flies in the night in the howling Storm has found out thy bed of crimson joy. [ simple sentence]
Answer: The Invisible flying worm has found out thy bed in the night of howling storm.
12. That flies in the night in the howling storm. [ verb form of ‘howling’]
Answer: That flies in the night of the storm that howls.
13. His dark secret love does thy life destroy. [noun form of destroy]
Answer: His dark secret love does bring the destruction of thy life.
Class XI English (Mindscapes)Textual Grammar
- Leela’s Friend – RK Narayan
- Voice Change from Leela’s Friend
- Narration Change from Leela’s Friend
- English Grammar (Do as Directed) from Leela’s Friend
- Karma – Khushwant Singh
- Voice Change from Karma
- Narration Change from Karma
- Transformation of Sentences(1) from Karma
- Transformation of Sentences (2) from Karma
- Jimmy Valentine – O. Henry
- Voice Change from Jimmy Valentine
- Narration Change from Jimmy Valentine
- Nobel Lecture – Mother Teresa
- Voice Change from Nobel Lecture
- Narration Change from Nobel Lecture
- Transformation of Sentences from Nobel Lecture
- The Place of Art in Education – Nandalal Bose
- Voice Change from The Place of Art in Education
- Transformation of Sentences from The Place of Art in Education
- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge – William Wordsworth
- Textual Grammar from Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
- Meeting at Night – Robert Browning
- Textual Grammar from Meeting at Night
- The Sick Rose – William Blake
- Textual Grammar from The Sick Rose
- Brotherhood – Octavio Paz
- Textual Grammar from Brotherhood
- Daybreak – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Textual Grammar from Daybreak
