Rewrite the following sentences without changing their meanings. 1. He is too proud to beg.

2. She is too clever not to see through your tricks.

3. He works at night so that he can study at day. (Change it to simple sentence)

4. I saw a wounded bird. (Change to complex sentence)

5. He remarked how impudent (rude) the boy was. (Complex, change to simple sentence)

6. He must work very hard to make up for the lost time. (Change to compound sentence)

7. I have found the book that I had lost. (Complex, change to compound sentence)

8. He went to the shop but he didn’t buy anything. (Compound, change it to complex sentence)

9. Taking off their clothes the children jumped into the river. (Simple, change to compound sentence)
10. We will have to cancel the play unless we find a venue by tomorrow. (Begin: If we...) Replacing “unless

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the present continuous is a verb tense which is mainly used to indicates that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking.  

it is formed using: person + verb to be (am/is/are) +verb + - ing form  

example: i am studying at this moment .

in addition, the present continuous is also used in order to express things that will or will not happen in the near future.

example: i am having dinner with some friends tonight.

the speaker sometimes   uses it   to express that an action is repeated and it causes irritation on the part of the speaker

example: my sister is constantly complaining about everything.

the mending wall was written by robert frost

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