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Sentence Transformations 1: Answers

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This will be my student's first performance in Canada.
This will be the first time my student has performed in Canada.

This course will take us six months to complete.
In six months time we will have completed this course.

There will be someone to meet you on arrival.
When you arrive someone will be there.

The number of people who understand his ideas exceed his expectations.
More people understand him than he expects.

The money didn't arrive for a month.
It was a month before the money arrived.

The last time I saw him was in 2001.
I haven't seen him since 2001.

She'll have to make her presentation at the end of his speech.
The moment he finishes she'll have to make her presentation.

Sharon will finish her exams. Then she will have more free time.
Once Sharon has finished her exams she will have more free time.

Quite a few DVDs are missing from the shelves.
Several people have not returned (their) DVDs.

Peter wasn't always so moody.
Peter didn't use to be so moody.

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