Textual Grammar

2.1 ON SAYING PLEASE
Textual Grammar
1)He not only declined to comply with the instruction but hold the passenger out of the lift .(Use as well as)
Ans:- He declined to comply with the instruction as well as hurled the passnger out of the lift.
2) We must admit that the law is reasonable. (Make it negative without changing meaning )
Ans:-we must not deny that the law is reasonable.
3) It will permit me to retaliate with reasonable violence .(Change the voice)
Answer:- It will be permitted to retaliate with reasonable violence .
4) It does not excuse assault and battery .
(Change the voice)

Answer:-Assault and battery are not excused.
5) The law does not compel me to say please. (Rewrite as an interrogative or rhetorical sentence)
Answer:-Does the law compel me to say please?
6) It was a question of please.( Add question tag)
Answer:-it was a question of please, wasn’t it?
7) He himself had been henpecked at breakfast by his wife. ( change the voice ) ( make active)
Ans-At breakfast his wife had henpeckked him.
8) The law can not become the guardian our private manners.(change into rhetorical question)
Ans :- Can the law become the guardian of our private manners ?
9) Bad manners probably do more to poison the stream of the general life than all the crimes in the calender.(Chane the degree of comparison)
Ans: All the crimes in the calendar do not poison the stream of general life as much as the bad manners probably do.
10) Sir Anthony Absolute bullied captain Absolute.(Frame a wh question to get the underlined part as an answer)
Ans:- Who bullied Sir Anthony Absolute ?
Who did bully Sir Anthony Absolute?
II) It was a question of please.(Make rhetorical question)
Ans :- Wasn’t it a question of please?
12) There is no allowances for moral and intellectual damages in these matters.(use as well as)’
Ans There is no allowances for moral as well as intellectual damages in these matters.
13) The pain of a Kick on the Shins soon passes away but the pain of a wound to our self – respect or our vanity may poison a whole day. (use – Though)
Ans- Though the pain of a kick on the shins soon passes away ,the pain of a wound to our selt – respect or our vanity may poison a whole day.
14) The pain of a wound to self- respect may poison a whole day. (Pick out the auxiliary and state its function.)
Ans-May – probability , possibility
will >> may >> might->won’t
15) For there are few things more catching than .bad temper. ( Write the part of speech of the underlined word)
Ans: – catching -> . Gerund
16) There is a social practice much older and much more sacred than any law which enjoins us to be civil . ( use not only – but also )

Ans 🙂 There is a social practice not only much older but also more sacred than any law which enjoins us to be civil.
17) Most people will have a certain sympathy with him. (Rewrite using the verb form of the underlined word)
Sympathy :-> Noun
Ans 🙂 Verb-> Sympathize
Most people sympathize with him.
18) here and there you will meet an unpleasant sepecimen who regards the passenger as his natural enemies.(Replace the verb in the future there with a modal auxiliary showing possibility )
Ans 🙂 may
Ans :-Here and there you may meet an unpleasant sepecimen who regards the passenger as his natural enemies.
19) He could have got legal redress. (use able to)
(Use be able to )
Ans-( can- is, am , are) (could- was , were)
He was able to have got legal redress.
He was able to get legal redress.
20) I had left home without any money my pocket. ( pick out the verb and State the tense)
Ans 🙂 verb – had->past perfect
21) I know that stale old trick. (Rewrite begining that stale old trick…..)
Ans:- That Stale old trick is known to me.
22) I said it was a very kind of him . (Identity the clause)
Ans:- I said – main clause
It was very kind of him- Subordinate Clause
23) ‘0 h’ I’ll book you through “ he replied. (Change into indirect speech)
Ans: He said that he would book me through .
24) I jumped on to a bus and found that I had left home without any money.
( use no sooner – than)
Ans: No sooner did I jump on to a bus than I found that I had left home without any money.
25) Everyone has had the experience.
( Indentity the tense)
Ans :present perfect tense.
26) “Where do you want to go?’ he asked me. (Change into narration)
Ans:- He asked me where I wanted to go.
27) It do not intend to suggest a rebuke to conductors generally. (use Intention)
Ans: It is not my intention to suggest a. rebuke to conductors generally .
28) It not only makes things pleasant for the travelling public but also perform an important social service. ( Remove not only – but also )
Ans :- It makes things pleasant for the travelling public as well as perform an important social service.
29) I should like to ‘feature’ in this connection my friend , the polite conductor.
( Make complex )

Ans :- I should like to ‘feature’in this connection my friend , who was the polite conductor.
30) You are annoyed because you look like a fool at the best and like a knave at the worst.(use not only-but also)
Ans :- You are annoyed because you look like not only a fool at the best but also a knave at the worst.
31) But that fact did not lessen the glow pleasure which so good natured an action had given me. (make affirmative sentence..)
Ans :- But that fact failed to lessen the glow of pleasure which so good natured an action had given me.
32):- He had hurt me but he was so nice a nice about it that I assured him he hadn’t.(Make complex)
Ans:- Though he had hurt me, he was so nice about it that I assured him he hadn’t.
33) He seemed to have an inexhaustible fund of patience and a gift for making his passenger’s comfortable.(use not only – but also)
Ans: He seemed to have not only an inexhaustible fund of patienence but also a gift for making his passengers comfortable.
34) The polite man may lose the material advantage but he always has the spiritual victory. ( Rewrite begining with Though)
Ans:- Though the polite man may lose the material advantage ,he always has the spiritual victory.
35) We must get those civities back if we are to make life kindly and tolerable for each other . (use Unless)
unless = If-not
Ans:- Unless we are to make life kindly and tolerable for each other, we must not get those civilities back.
36) We infect the world with our ill-humours.( Change into present perfect continuous tense)
Ans:- S + AV(has / have) been+V+ing+0.
Ans 🙂 We have been infecting the world with our ill- humours.
37) If we encounter incivility most of us are apt to become uncivil. (USe -Unless)
Ans:- Unless we encounter incivility most of us are not apt to become uncivil.
38) I looked up with anger and saw my friend of the cheerful countenance.(mare it simple)
Ans: Looking up with anger I saw my friend with cheerful countenance.
39) His gaity was a sound investment.(Make it exclamatory sentence)
Ans: What a sound investment his gaity
was !
40) We must get those civilities back.(Rewrite showing advice)
Ans -Advice = should
We should get those civilities back.
41) If I am physically assaulted, it will permit me to retaliate.(use- unless)
Ans 🙂 Unless I am physically assaulted, it will not permit me to retaliate.
42) 0ur fits would never be idle(Remove never)(Make it affirmative)
Ans: 0ur fits would always be active.
43) The public owes much to the underground Railway company.( Frame a wh question to get the underlined part as an answer)

Ans:) Whom does the public owe much to ?
44) I do not intend to suggest a rebuke to conductors generally. (Remove infinitive) ( use gerund
Ans. – Gerund = verb+ing
Infinitive = to + verb1
I do not intend for suggesting a rebuke to conductors generally.
45) It is an usually uncouth person who can be disagreeable with Sunny people.( Remove – who) (Make it simple)
Ans An usually uncouth person can be disagreeable with Sunny People. Use –
46) We must get those civilities back if we are to make life kindly and tolerable for each other.(Use -unless)

• Ans:-) Unless we are to make life Kindly and tolerable for each other, we must not get those civilities back.