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Sentence Transformations 2: Answers

By Kenneth Beare, About.com

Katherine keeps making long distance telephone calls.
Katherine is always making long distance telephone calls.

Jack ate lunch before we arrived.
By the time we arrived, Jack had eaten lunch.

Is there such a thing as happiness?
Does happiness exist?

I haven't eaten Sushi for years.
It's years since I ate Sushi.

I didn't know about Susan's divorce.
I didn't know that Susan had divorced.

His homework won't be finished by the end of the day.
He won't have finished his homework by the end of the day.

His education is none of your business.
His education does not concern you.

He'll be at the meeting soon.
It won't be long before he's at the meeting.

Go to the conference check
in desk immediately on arrival.
As soon as you arrive, go to the conference check
in desk.

After finishing the exam, I started to relax a lot.
Since finishing the exam I have relaxed a lot.

If you would like more practice on sentence transformations, follow these links to other sentence transformation quizzes on the site.

Sentence Transformation # 1

Sentence Transformation # 2

Sentence Transformation # 3

Sentence Transformation # 4

Sentence Transformation # 5

Sentence Transformation # 6

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