Write your version – Rewrite the Sentences and Paragraphs in your own Language Exercise 3

1. Passing the mathematics test proved to be daunting task for me. I had paid scant attention to the subject throughout the year.

 

2. The temperature of my body began to soar. It was getting dark in the evening. My parents were on tenterhooks.

 

3. The negotiations between Iran and the U.S. will start in Islamabad in the coming hours.  Some are sceptical about the outcome. Some are optimistic.

 

4. As many as 175 school children were killed in a Teheran school by American bombing. The heart-wrenching incident still haunts the whole world. 

   (Answers at the bottom.)

1. It’s unclear if the Strait of Hormuz that has been the bone of contention for almost a month will be open for traffic after today’s peace talks in Pakistan.

2. The agreement for a hours-long ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, though too short, has come as a pleasant surprise to all peace-loving people.

3. Ascending a mountain peak is a daunting job which has become somewhat easier these days due to the use of gadgets like oxygen cylinders, thermal clothing etc.

4. Cancer is on the rampage in recent times thanks to the increased consumption of processed foods and environmental pollution, but the humans are not taking adequate measured to combat such dangers.

 

c) Break the following para graph to smaller sentences.

FOR THE hundreds of ships and thousands of mariners stranded in the Gulf by the war in Iran, the ceasefire has yet to happen. Most are waiting for the fog of uncertainty to lift from the Strait of Hormuz, the sole waterway between the Gulf and the Arabian Sea, which Iran has closed to all but a few ships. The clerical regime is using its new-found control of the strait to charge a toll, in effect changing its status from an international waterway with the right of free navigation to something resembling an internal passage or a canal.

For the hundreds of ships and thousands of mariners stranded in the Gulf by the war in Iran, the ceasefire has yet to happen. Most are waiting for the fog of uncertainty to lift from the Strait of Hormuz, the sole waterway between the Gulf and the Arabian Sea, which Iran has closed to all but a few ships. The clerical regime is using its new-found control of the strait to charge a toll, in effect changing its status from an international waterway with the right of free navigation to something resembling an internal passage or a canal.

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ANSWERS …

a) Join the following sentences to form a single sentence.

1. Passing the mathematics test proved to be daunting task for me. I had paid scant attention to the subject throughout the year.

Ans..   As I had paid scant attention to the subject throughout the year, passing the mathematics test proved to be daunting task for me.

                                  Or

Throughout the year, I had paid scant attention to mathematics as a result of which its test proved to be a daunting task for me.

2. The temperature of my body began to soar. It was getting dark in the evening. My parents were on tenterhooks.

Ans… My parents were on tenterhooks seeing my body temperature soar amid the evening’s darkness.  

                                Or

With the evening getting darker, my body temperature soared and my parents were on tenterhooks.

                                Or

The evening was getting dark when my body temperature soared and my parents were on tenterhooks.

3. The negotiations between Iran and the U.S. will start in Islamabad in the coming hours.  Some are skeptical about the outcome. Some are optimistic….

Ans… Looking at the Iran-U.S. negotiations due to start in Islamabad in a few h ours, some seem to be skeptical about the outcome whereas many others feel optimistic.

                         Or

Feelings vary between skepticism to optimism about the Iran-U.S. negotiation about to start in Islamabad in a few hours.

4. As many as 175 school children were killed in a Teheran school by American bombing. The heart-wrenching incident still haunts the whole world.

Ans .. The heart-wrenching death of 175 school children in Teheran by American bombing continues to haunt the whole world.