Question 2 - Sentence Transformation - Grammar - English Class 9

Read the following conversation and complete the dialogues by choosing the correct option.

Interviewer: (a) ............... your school? Raman: I think my school is the best school in the city.

Interviewer: (b) ............... in your school? Raman: Mrs Dolly Chopra is the best.

Interviewer: (c) ............... you? Raman: She teaches us English.

Interviewer: (d) ............... in English? Raman: I got 95 marks out of hundred.

(a) (A) What you think about (B) What you are thinking about (C) What do you think about (D) What are you thinking about 

(b) (A) Who is the best teacher (B) Who the best teacher is (C) Which is the best teacher (D) What is the teacher

(c) (A) What does she teach (B) What she teaches (C) In which subject she teach (D) Which subject she taught 

(d) (A) How much marks you got (B) How much marks did you get (C) How many marks you got (D) How many marks did you get

Answer:

For part 1

• Option (a) - will be eliminated as it does not contain the verb ‘do’ which is used when one is asking a question.
• Option (b) - will be eliminated as ‘you’ is added before the verb ‘are’ and the reverse has to be done when one is asking a question
• Option (c) - This is correct
• Option (d) - will be eliminated as it is in present continuous tense and the question is asked in simple present tense

For part 2

• Option (a) - This is correct
• Option (b) - will be eliminated as the verb ‘is’ is added at the end which is not done when a question is asked
• Option (c) - will be eliminated as ‘which’ is used when one is talking about non living subjects
• Option (d) - will be eliminated as ‘what’ is used when one is talking about non living subjects

For part 3

• Option (a) - This is correct
• Option (b) - will be eliminated as it does not contain the verb ‘does’ which is used when one is asking a question
• Option (c) - will be eliminated as the subject and predicate are in the wrong order
• Option (d) - will be eliminated as it is in past tense

For part 4

• Option (a) - will be eliminated as ‘much’ is not used with the subject whose quantity can be measured in numbers
• Option (b) - will be eliminated as ‘much’ is not used with the subject whose quantity can be measured in numbers
• Option (c) - will be eliminated as the verb ‘did’ is not used
• Option (d) - This is correct

Thus the correct paragraph is

Interviewer: What do you think about your school?  

Raman: I think my school is the best school in the  city. 

Interviewer: Who is the best teacher in your school?  

Raman: Mrs Dolly Chopra is the best.  

Interviewer: What does she teach you?  

Raman: She teaches us English.  

Interviewer: How many marks did you get in English?  

Raman: I got 95 marks out of a hundred.