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1. Dominic said "Marlar, I will see you tomorrow." (Rewrite, using "Indirect Speech") Domonic told Marlar that he would see her the next day. See More about Reported Speech

2. Open the window! (Change into "Passive Voice") Let the window be opened. See More about Active Vs Passive

3. These men are heroes. (Rewrite, using "Third Person Singular")
This man is a hero.
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4. She usually goes to school at 7 o'clock. (Change into "Interrogative")
Does she usually go to school at 7 o'clock.
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5. I know why they had chosen me. (Change into "Negative")
I do not know why they had chosen me.
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6. The author has written the last chapter of his book. (Rewrite, replacing the underlined word with the word of similar meaning)
The author has written the final chapter of his book.
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7. He whispered to his friend who ______ at him. (Rewrite, filling in the opposite of the word underlined)
He whispered to his friend who shouted at him.
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8. He usually (speak) so quickly that we (not understand) him. (Rewrite, using "Present Simple Tense")
He usually speaks so quickly that we do not understand him.
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9. I can't go out now as it (rain) heavily outside. (Rewrite, using "Present Continuous Tense")
I can't go out now as it is raining heavily outside.
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10. The wall just (paint). Don't touch it yet. (Rewrite, using "Present Perfect Tense")
The wall has just been painted. Don't touch it yet.
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11. What awful weather! It (rain) since five o'clock this morning. (Rewrite, using "Present Perfect Continuous Tense")
What awful weather! It has been raining since five o'clock this morning.
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12. He talks as if he (know) everything. (Rewrite, using "Past Simple Tense")
He talks as if he knew everything.
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13. My wife and I (wait) for you when you came in. (Rewrite, using "Past Continuous Tense")
My wife and I were waiting for you when you came in.
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14. As soon as you (go), I wanted to see you again. (Rewrite, using "Past Perfect Tense")
As soon as you had gone, I wanted to see you again.
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15. I am 19 this year. Next year I (be) 20. (Rewrite, using "Future Simple Tense")
I am 19 this year. Next I will be 20.
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17. This theory is not yet (universal) accepted. (Rewrite with the correct form of the word in bracket)
This theory is not yet universally accepted.
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18. I would have bought it if I (have) enough money. (Rewrite, using "If Pattern")
I would have bought it if I had had enough money.
See More about Conditional "If Pattern"

19. Thura is sleeping. He is surfing the net. (Join, using "either_or/neither_nor")
Thura is either sleeping or surfing the net.
See More about Either_or/Neither_nor

20. A scientist is highly imaginative. A scientist is highly practical. ( Join, using "not only_but also")
A scientist is not only highly imaginative but also highly practical.
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21. The secretary works efficiently. She works systematically. (Join, using "both_and")
The secretary works both efficiently and systematically.
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22. If he consults a doctor soon, it is good for him. (Join, using "the Adj-er_the, the Adj-er_the")
The sooner he consults a doctor, the better it is for him.
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23. More people live in Yangon than in Mandalay. (Rewrite, using " (not) as_as")
Not as many people live in Mandalay than in Yangon.
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24. The coffee was extremely hot. I couldn't drink it. (Rewrite, using "so_that")
The coffee was so hot that I couldn't drink it.
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25. I wore warm clothes. This meant that I might not get cold. (Rewrite, using "so that")
I wore warm clothes so that I might not get cold.
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26. It was a very warm evening. We had dinner outside in the garden. (Rewrite, using "such_that")
It was such a very warm evening that we had dinner outside in the garden.
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27. She is not old enough to go camping. (Rewrite, using "too_to")
She is too young to go camping.
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28. The passengers saw smoke. They became alarmed. (Rewrite, using "V-ing")
Seeing smoke, the passengers became alarmed.
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29. Soil is eroded. It is carried away in violent rainfall. (Rewrite, using "by+V-ing")
Soil is eroded by being carried away in violent rainfall.
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30. She fried the vegetable. She did not wash them. (Rewrite, using "without+V-ing)
She fried the vegetable without washing them.
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31. The clothes were washed first. Then they were ironed. (Rewrite, using "after+V-ing)
After being washed, the clothes were ironed.
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32. Although Thura ran very fast, he did not win the race. (Rewrite, using "In spite of+V-ing")
In spite of running very fast, Thura did not win the race.
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33. When I got my degree, I was already married. (Rewrite, using "by the time")
By the time I got my degree, I was already married.
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34. Are you interested in Julius Caesar? It is a political play. (Rewrite, using "Appositive Construction")
Are you interested in Julius Caesar, a political play?
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35. My secretary sent the bill to Mr. Zayyar yesterday. (Rewrite, using "It is/was+who/that+N/Adv(phr)_")
It was Mr. Zayyar to whom my secretary sent the bill yesterday.
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36. The lady who lives next door to Zayyar is Marlar. (Rewrite, "omitting the Relative Pronoun")
The lady living next door to Zayyar is Marlar.
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37. She keeps her clothes in the cupboard; she keeps her money in the safe. (Rewrite, "omitting the Main Verb Phrase")
She keeps her clothes in the cupboard; her money in the safe.
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38. He put oil on the door hinges. They would no longer squeak. (Rewrite, using "to+Verb Simple")
He put oil on the door hinges not to squeak any longer.
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39. I (study) my lesson when the light went out. (Rewrite, using "be+about to")
I was about to study my lesson when the light went out.
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40. It is necessary for the workers to wear the helmets. (Rewrite, using "have to")
The workers have to wear the helmets.
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41. These bookcases (not, move). (Rewrite, using "Can+ Verb Simple Form")
These bookcases cannot be moved.
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42. All your wishes (come) true. (Rewrite, using "may+ Verb Simple Form")
May all your wishes come true.
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43. You (not, talk) in the exam hall. ( Rewrite, using "may/must")
You must not talk in the exam hall.
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44. He has to go out and it's raining. (Rewrite, using "had better")
He'd better take an umbrella.
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45. Nilar prefers teaching to housework. (Rewrite, using " would rather")
Nilar would rather teach than do housework.
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46. It is advisable for you to visit Emajor regularly. (Rewrite, replacing the suitable "modal auxiliary")
You should visit Emajor regularly.
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47. I ordered the hairdresser to dye my hair brown. (Rewrite, using "Have+Obj.+Past Participle" construction, omitting the words underlined.
I had my hair dyed brown.
See More about Have+Obj.+Past Participle

48. They have the boy paint their garden gate. (Rewrite, mentioning the actor at the end)
They ha

My Fond Wish

Like my little garden,
May I grow sweet and fair,
With kindly words and action
For everyone to spare.
May the good seeds flourish well
In my little heart,
And all the vain and wicked thoughts
Like evil weeds depart.

ဆႏၵမြန္

ငါ၏ဥယ်ာဥ္ ၿခံငယ္ပမာ
မ်ားသူငွာသုိ႔ ၾကင္နာစကား
ျပဳမူမ်ားအား ေပးေ၀ငွလွ်က္
ငါသည္ ထုံသင္းသာယာစြာ ႀကီးျပင္းရပါလုိ၏။
ငါႏွလုံးသားတြင္ မ်ဳိးေစ႔မ်ဳိးမွန္
ေကာင္းစြာရွင္သန္လွ်က္၊ အသုံးမက်
ဆုိးယုတ္လွသည္႔ အေတြးအားလုံး
ေပါင္းျမက္ဆုိးမ်ားပမာ ဖယ္ခြာေရွာင္ရွားၾကပါေစသား။ ။

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The Mesh
We have come to the cross-roads
And I must either leave or come with you.
I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And I saw in your face
The road that I should take.
-Kwesi Brew

ေႏွာင္ႀကဳိး
ငါတုိ႔ေတြ လမ္းဆုံလမ္းခြကုိ ေရာက္ခဲ႔ၾကၿပီဆုိေတာ႔
ငါနင္႔ကုိ ထားခ်င္လည္းထားခဲ႔ အတူသြားခ်င္လည္းသြားရေတာ႔မယ္။
ငါေရြးခ်ယ္ရမယ္႔အရာေပၚမွာ ေ၀ခြဲမရျဖစ္ခဲ႔ရတယ္။
ဒါေပမယ္႔ေလ- ငါ႔ရဲ႕သံသယအေမွာင္ထုထဲမွာ
နင္ကေမတၱာမီးအိမ္ေျမာက္ျပခဲ႔ေလေတာ႔
နင္႔မ်က္ႏွာေပၚမွာ ငါျမင္လုိက္ရပါၿပီေလ
ငါ လုိက္ ရ မယ္႔ လမ္း ကုိေပါ႔။

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အားထုတ္မႈကင္းရျခင္းခ်မ္းသာ
ထုိေနရာမ်ားရွိျငားမွန္စြာ
သင္တုိ႔ေတြလည္းထုိပဲသြားပါ
က်ဳပ္ကုိလည္းထုိပဲပုိ႔လုိက္ပါ။