Sentence transformation english grammar\in Nepali and English\opytab

opytaab Converting Simple Sentences into Complex Sentences can be done easily. And this can be done by simply expanding a word or a phrase into a clause. Moreover, we can do the same thing when we want to change the Complex Sentences into Simple Sentences. And this can be done by eliminating a clause into a word or a phrase. Few examples are given below to understand the concept and conventional rules of transforming between Simple Sentence and Complex Sentences:- Rule: 1: “Present participle” in a simple sentence, to convert into complex sentences by adding “since/as/when” at the first half of the sentence. Simple Sentence: Closing the door, I went back to school.Complex Sentence: When I closed the door, I went back to school. Rule: 2 “Being/ Verb+ing” in a simple sentence, to convert into a complex sentence by adding “as/when/since” at the first half of the sentence. Simple Sentence: After winning a beauty contest she cried.Complex Sentence: As she won the beauty contest, she cried. Rule: 3 “Too…to” in a simple sentence, to convert into a complex sentence by adding “so…that (negative)”. Simple Sentence: He is too weak to carry the box.Complex Sentence: He is so weak that he cannot carry the box. Rule: 4 “To” in the simple sentence, to convert into a complex sentence by adding “so that” in the sentence. Simple sentence: We eat to live.Complex Sentence: We eat so that we can live. Rule: 5 In the simple sentence “in spite of/ despite”, to convert into the complex sentence by adding “though/ although” in the sentence. Simple Sentence: In spite of being rich, she is hard working.Complex Sentence: Though she is rich, she is hard working. Rule: 6 “Because of” in the simple sentence, to convert it to the complex sentence by adding “since” at the beginning of the sentence. Simple Sentence: Because of his illness, he could not join the meeting.Complex Sentence: Since he was ill, he could not join the meeting. Rule: 7 “Subject + verb + object + present participle” type of simple sentence, to convert it to the complex sentence by “subject + verb + object + relative pronoun of the object + be verb according to relative pronoun and tense + rest of the sentence”. Simple Sentence: I saw a bird flying.Complex Sentence: I saw a bird which was flying. Rule: 8 In the simple sentence starts with “without”,  by adding “if/ in case” is converted into the complex sentence. Simple Sentence: Without adding the sugar the dish will taste bad.Complex Sentence: If you do not add sugar the dish will taste bad. Rule: 9 In the simple sentence “at the time” will be converted into “when” in the complex sentence. Simple Sentence: She woke up at the time of load shedding.Complex Sentence: She woke up when it was load shedding. Rule: 10: In the simple sentence, “adjective” will be converted into “that/which” in the complex sentence. Simple Sentence: It was a blue shirt.Complex Sentence: It was a shirt which was blue.

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