Answers and explanations
- Exciting trip we have ever. The switch from ‘never’ to ‘ever’ requires some additional changes in the transformed sentence. Make sure to keep the changed sentence in the Present Perfect.
- Decided against buying. To decide against doing something is to choose not to do it. Note the -ing form that is used with this structure. The sentence ‘We changed our decision against buying the boat’ has double a negative meaning, which means that the speaker chose to buy it, which is not the message of the original sentence.
- You still able to. The beginning of the sentence forces us to look for an adjective instead of the verb in the original sentence. Failing to include ‘still’ will make you lose 1 of the 2 points for this sentence.
- Get out of/get away from. Both of the phrasal verbs mean ‘to leave some place’. Be careful to use the appropriate participle with each phrasal verb.
- More than enough food. The phrase ‘plenty of’ means that there is no shortage of something, that it is available in great numbers or quantity.
- I had ever considered. Remember to make the necessary transformation associated with reported speech. In this case the student is likely to forget to transform Present Perfect to Past perfect.
- Was underwhelmed by. If you are underwhelmed by something, it means that it was less impressive or interesting than you had expected. Be careful not to answer ‘got underwhelmed by’.
- My first time in/to. While the phrase ‘my first time’ is easy to get, pay attention to the preposition that follows the phrase.
- Gave away most of. To give something away means to give it to somebody without asking or expecting anything in return.
- Has far more. ‘Far’ is used as an intensifier, similarly to ‘much’ in the first sentence. Don’t be misguided by the inverted word order in the transformed sentence.
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