Grammar quarantine home work

Quarantine work
Do as directed
1. The thing haunted me. ( change voice)
2. I picked up my pen and gazed out of the window. (Make simple sentence)
3. I would get up and sprawl on the floor. (Rewrite using 'used to')
4. If you only dig enough, a pasture can be made here. (Rewrite using 'Unless')
5. I had created a book. (Rewrite using present perfect continuous tense)
6. It altered my life radically. ( Make it a rhetorical question.)
7. I have to sell the sacks. (Rewrite using modal for compulsions.)
8. She started to roam in the garden. (Remove the infinitive  and rewrite the sentence)
9. They saw trees laden with apples. ( Make complex)
10. When the grains are ripe enough to harvest, flock of birds would land there. (Rewrite using no sooner----than)
11. There are no liquor or tobacco shops in the village. (Rewrite using neither---nor)
12. This step was rarely taken. (Make negative)
13. What good will that do. (Make it assertive.)
14. The animal moved, so did the lady. (Rewrite using as well as.)
15. He barely noticed when the new college year arrived.(Rewrite using the noun form of arrived.)
Answers: 1. I was haunted by the thing. 2.Picking up my pen I gazed out of the window. 3. I used to get up and sprawl on the floor. 4. Unless you only dig enough a pasture can't be made. 5. I have been creating a book. 6. Didn't it alter my life radically? 7. I must sell the sacks 8. She started roaming in the garden. 9. They saw trees that were laden with apples. 10. No sooner are the grains ripe enough to harvest than flock of birds would land there. 11. There are neither liquor nor tobacco shops in the village. 12. This step was often not taken. / This step was not taken too often. 13. This will not do any good. 14. The animal as well as the lady moved. 15. He barely noticed the arrival of the new college year.

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