SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION
1. When I was running down the street, I saw John fashionably dressed. (NINES)
Upon ____________________________________________________________________________.
2. Minh Hieu is wearing a lot of jewels.
Minh Hieu is dripping _______________________________________________________________.
3. It was wildly exciting at the stadium. (REACHED)
The excitement _________________________________________________________________ pitch.
4. Jane often makes heavy weather of the assignments.
Jane often makes a _________________________________________________________________.
5. The street was packed with people so we had difficulty in getting the ticket. (TIME)
In ________________________________________________________________ .
6. It costs me a hundred dollars for pair of socks which was way too much. A hundred dollars
______________________________________________________________robbery.
7. If you don’t do your assignments, she will be very mad. (BEAR)
She will ______________________________________________________________ done.
8. We should exclude Max’s house from the list because his house is too small.
We should count ______________________________________________________________ cat.
9. As soon as we reached the park, the rain came down in torrents.
No sooner ______________________________________________________________ opened.
10. We missed the boat for our second opportunity. (FINGERS)
A second ______________________________________________________________.
1. When I was running down the street, I saw John fashionably dressed. (NINES)
Upon running down the street, I saw John dressed (up) to the NINES.
• Upon doing something = On doing something = While doing something
• Dressed (up) to the nines: to dress so fashionably (especially for going somewhere)
2. Minh Hieu is wearing a lot of jewels.
Minh Hieu is dripping with jewels.
• To be dripping with sth: to wear a lot of something (especially accessories)
3. It was wildly exciting at the stadium. (REACHED)
The excitement at the stadium REACHED the fever pitch.
• Fever pitch: the strong feeling of something
4. Jane often makes heavy weather of the assignments.
Jane often makes a production out of the assignments.
• To make a production out of something = to make heavy weather of something: to make
something look difficult althought it is not that difficult.
5. The street was packed with people so we had difficulty in getting the ticket. (TIME)
In that the street was packed with people, we had a rare old TIME getting the ticket.
• In that = because
• to have a rare old time : (1) to enjoy yourself (2) to have difficulty
6. It costs me a hundred dollars for pair of socks which was way too much.
A hundred dollars for a pair of socks is a daylight robbery.
• Daylight robbery: is when you have to pay overpriced.
7. If you don’t do your assignments, she will be very mad. (BEAR)
She will be like a BEAR with sore head / a real BEAR if you don’t have your assignments done.
• to be like a bear with sore head/a real bear: to be very mad
8. We should exclude Max’s house because his house is too small.
We should count Max’s house out because his house has not enough/ no room to swing a cat.
• count sth out: to exclude something
• have no/ not enough room to swing a cat: to describe a very small room
9. Barely had we reached the park when the rain came down in torrents.
No sooner had we reached the park than the heavens opened.
• The heavens open: to rain heavily
• 10. We missed the boat for our second opportunity. (FINGERS)
10. A second bite at/of the cherry slipped through our FINGERS.
• A second/another at/ of the cherry: the second opportunity
• Slip through sb’s fingers: to miss the opportunity to do something = miss the boat.