typical fce sentence transformation areas
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The categories listed below appear quite often in FCE sentence transformation.
1. Comparative/Superlative
Structures like so/such .., er/as ... as or too/enough often appear in this exercise.
2. Passive
Changes from active to passive or passive to active are often required.
3. Direct and Indirect Speech
You are sometimes asked to transform a sentence from direct speech to indirect
speech or from indirect to direct speech.
4. Auxiliary verbs
You will often find questions that test your knowledge of auxiliary verbs like 'will',
'have', 'must' etc.
5. Conditionals
Any type of conditional sentence is likely to appear in this part of Paper 3.
6. 'Unreal' past tenses
You will sometimes find sentences using 'If only ...', 'I wish ...', I'd rather ...' etc that
require the use of past tenses.
7. Verb patterns
Your knowledge of verb patterns such as gerund and infinitive is frequently tested.
8. Phrasal Verbs
Sentences requiring phrasal verbs often appear in this section.
9. Practice
In most of the exercises above you have had to make ONE change to the sentence,
for example making an active sentence passive. However, in the exam you may
have to make TWO changes to the sentence, for example changing active to
passive AND using a phrasal verb