Sentence Transformation, Ordering, and Completion
This section asks you to build or rebuild sentences rather than choose from options. There are three item types: ordering given words or phrases, rewriting a sentence so the meaning stays the same, and completing a short exchange so it is coherent.
Rules that decide the answer
- Embedded questions keep statement order: She asked me where I lived - no did, no inversion.
- too ... to ↔ so ... that ... not ↔ not ... enough to.
- because ↔ so; "Ken is taller than I" ↔ "I am not as tall as Ken".
- "How old are you?" ↔ "What is your age?"
- Use each printed word exactly once; check whether the instructions allow a form change.
Worked example
Japanese: 彼女は私にどこに住んでいるか尋ねた Given words: asked / where / she / I / me / lived Answer: She asked me where I lived. Reasoning: "asked" needs a person after it, so "me" comes first. After that comes the question word "where", then the embedded clause in statement order, subject then verb: I lived. "Did" never appears inside an embedded question, and "lived" is past because the asking happened in the past.
Traps
- Adding do / does / did inside an indirect question.
- Putting "me" after "where", copying Japanese order.
- Leaving out one of the given words, or adding a word that was not printed.
- Dropping the capital letter and final period, which can cost the mark.
- Rewriting with a different meaning just because the grammar is correct.