III. Rewrite the sentences or combine each of the following pairs of sentences into one:
1. You are very young. You can’t have a front-door key (so. . . that)
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2. It was very cold. We couldn’t bathe (so. . that)
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3. I am rather old. I can’t wear that kind of hat. (so. . . that) …………. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4. The road is very narrow. Two cars can’t pass each other. (so. . . that)
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5. It’s not very dark. We can’t see the stars clearly. (enough)
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6. The house is very expensive. Nobody can buy it. (such. . . that)
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7. The boy is very nice. We all like him. (such. . . that)
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8. The weather was cold. We couldn’t go out. (such. . . that)
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9. The room was very dark. We couldn’t see anything. (such. . that)
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10. The day was nice. We decided to go to the beach. (such. . that)
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11. The floor wasn’t strong. We couldn’t dance on it (enough)
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12. The ice is quite thick. We can walk on it (enough)
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13. The package is very thick. I can’t push it through the letterbox (too)
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14. Nobody could move the piano. It was too heavy. (too)
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15. Don’t stand on that chair. It is not strong. (enough)
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16. I can’t wear this coat in winter. It’s not warm. (enough) …………………………………………………………. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
17. I can’t take a photograph. It is very dark. (too)
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18. I was very excited about going away. I couldn’t sleep. (too)
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19. It’s a good book. I can’t put it down. (such. . that)
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20. He has difficulty finding shoes to fit him because his feet are very big. (so. . . that)
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21. Peter is very young so he cannot join in our trip. (too)
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22. My sister is very angry. She can’t say anything. (so. . . that)
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23. This jacket is very small. I can’t wear it. (too)
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24. It’s very early. Mr Brown can have a cup of coffee before going to work. (enough)
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25. She can’t get married because she is not old. (enough)
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SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (so ... that / such ... that / too / enough)
SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION
(so ... that / such ... that / too / enough)
1. The river is very deep. We can’t wade in it.
- The river is so ___deep that we can't wade in it_______________________________________________ _.
- It’s such ________a deep river that we can't wade in it__________________________________________ ______.
- The river is too _________deep for us to wade in _________________________________________ .
2. The floor wasn’t strong. We couldn’t dance on it.
- The floor ______wasn't strong enough for us to dance on ____________________________________________ _____.
3. The fire isn’t very hot. It won’t boil a kettle.
- The fire __isn't hot enough for it to boil a kettle________________________________________________ ______.
4. I was too tired to eat anything.
- I was so _________tired that I couldn't eat anything_________________________________________ _______.
5. The air is so polluted that we can’t breathe.
- The air is too _________polluted for us to breath_________________________________________ __.
- It’s such _____polluted air that we can't breathe_____________________________________________ ______.
6. The man is so poor that he can’t buy a small house.
- The man is too ______poor to buy a small house____________________________________________ _.
- He’s such _____a poor man that he can't buy a small house_____________________________________________ _____.
- He isn’t __rich enough to buy a small house________________________________________________ _______.
7. The soup is too hot for us to eat right away.
- The soup is so ____hot that we can't eat right away______________________________________________ __.
- It’s such ________hot soup that we can't eat right away__________________________________________ _______.
- The soup isn’t __________cool enough for us to eat right away________________________________________ __.
8. The story wasn’t interesting enough for me to stop reading.
- The story was too _______interesting for me to stop reading_.
- The story was so ______________interesting that I couldn't_stop reading___________________________________ .
- It was such ____an interesting story that I couldn't stop reading______________________________________________ _______.
9. It was such cold weather that we couldn’t go out.
- The weather was too ___cold for us to go out___________________________________________.
- The weather was so _________cold that we couldn't go out___________________________________.
- The weather wasn’t ______warm enough for us to go out_________________________________________.
10. It is such an interesting film that many people see it.
- The film is so ___________interesting that many people see it_______________________________________ ___.
11. My father couldn’t afford the car because it was too expensive.
- The car was too ___expensive for my father to buy_______________________________________________ _.
12. My suitcase is too full for the zip fastener to close properly.
- My suitcase is so _________full that the zip fastener can't close properly_________________________________________ _.
13. It was too hazy a day for us to take any pictures.
- The day was _______too hazy for us to take any pictures___________________________________________ ____.
14. Peter is too young to take part in the club.
- Peter is so ______young that he can't take part in the club____________________________________________ ______.
- Peter isn’t ___old enough to take part in the club_______________________________________________ ______.
15. We watched beautiful banners. We didn’t want to go home.
- We watched such ______beautiful banners that we didn't want to go home____________________________________________ .
- The banners were so _____beautiful for us to go home__________________________________________.
16. It was such a dirty river that we couldn’t swim in it.
- The river was too _____dirty for us to swim in _____________________________________________ .