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FCE KEY WORD TRANSFORMATION MADE EASY
First edition. August 18, 2015.
Copyright © 2015 D.Méndez.
Written by D.Méndez.
ISBN:
9781516395965
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INTRODUCTION
The Key word transformation tests a wide range of different grammatical structures and
vocabulary. You must show your ability to paraphrase using the key word and, most
importantly, keeping the meaning the same.
The difficulty lies on the great variety of grammatical structures that you need to learn in
order to do this part of the Use of English exam successfully.
You will be required to use structures such as passive tenses, conditional clauses, reported
speech, causative verbs, inverted sentences, comparatives and superlatives, phrasal verbs,
idioms, set phrases, etc. The book that you have in front of you will help you with that.
This book will help you get a better understanding of the different and most common
grammatical structures , that you will have to face when completing the Key word
transformation part of the Use of English exam.
As they say, practice makes perfect. The more Key word transformation exercises you do,
the better you will become at doing them. What’s more, over time you will get a feel for what
kind of grammatical structure or lexical item is needed for the exercise that you are doing.
To your success.
D
.
Méndez
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HOW TO DO KEY WORD TRANSFORMATION EXERCISES
SPECULATING ABOUT THE PRESENT
SPECULATING ABOUT THE PAST
AGO to FOR / FOR to AGO / LAST
AGO to SINCE/ SINCE to AGO SINCE to FOR / FOR to SINCE
TOO to ENOUGH / ENOUGH to TOO
REPORTED SPEECH
ACTIVE VERB FORM to PASSIVE VERB FORM
CONDITIONAL SENTENCES
ADJECTIVES ED to ING / ING to ED
COMPARATIVE – SUPERLATIVE
CAUSATIVE VERBS
PHRASAL VERBS
SET PHRASES
INVERSIONS
VERBS FOLLOWED BY GERUND (ING)
NEGATIVE WORDS
MODAL VERBS
IDIOMS
PREPOSITIONAL VERBS
UNREAL PAST TENSES
VERB PATTERNS
SENTENCES REQUIRING TWO CHANGES
ADJECTIVE TO NOUN / NOUN TO ADJECTIVE
LINKING WORDS
VERBS FOLLOWED BY A TO-INFINITIVE
PHRASES / PARAPHRASING
45 MOST COMMON PHRASAL VERBS
45 MOST COMMON IDIOMS
45 MOST COMMON SET PHRASES
PREPOSITIONAL VERBS ( LIST)
KEY WORD TRANSFORMATION EXERCISES + CLUES
KEY WORD TRANSFORMATION EXERCISES + ANSWERS
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HOW TO DO KEY WORD
TRANSFORMATION EXERCISES
STEP 1
: LOOK AT THE KEY WORD GIVEN.
WHAT IS IT? IS IT A NOUN , PREPOSITION , ADVERB , CONJUNTION, VERB
CONJUGATED, ETC?
STEP 2
: UNDERLINE WHATEVER IS REPEATED IN BOTH SENTENCES.
EXAMPLE : He enjoyed going to the cinema alone.
BY
He enjoyed going to the cinema .......................
STEP 3 :
FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU AND WHAT YOU ARE
REQUIRED TO DO , i.e. IS THE KEY WORD PART OF A PHRASAL VERB , A
SET PHRASE, A PASSIVE SENTENCE...?
YOU NEED TO IDENTIFY WHAT IS REQUIRED IN EACH QUESTION OF THE EXAM.
KEY WORD
TYPE
WIDELY –
ADV
APART -
ADV
SWIMMER –
NOUN
TURNED –
VEB PAST
LESS –
PRONOUN, ADVERB , PREP
IS -
VERB (PRESENT)
ALWAYS –
ADV
GOOD –
ADJ
FOR –
PREP
LITTLE –
ADJ
DOWN –
ADV
UP –
ADV
DO –
VERB (infinitive)
SETTLE –
VERB (infinitive)
TIDY –
VERB (infinitive)
LET –
VERB (PRESENT /PAST)
HOW -
ADV
HEARD-
VERB (PAST)
LOOKED-
VERB (PAST)
MOOD –
NOUN
DESERVE –
VERB (infinitive)
TOO –
ADV
EXCEPTION –
NOUN
HABIT –
NOUN
CHANCE –
NOUN
SAYING –
NOUN / Verb (gerund)
STRIKE -
VERB (infinitive)
ALONE -
ADJ
SUCH –
DETERMINER /PRONOUN /NOUN
POSSIBLE ANSWER
KNOWN
FROM
A BETTER SWIMMER THAN
TURNED DOWN
IS LESS THAN
IT IS MORE
ALWAYS ASKING ME
BE GOOD AT DOING STH
HAVEN’T SEEN HIM FOR
A LITTLE SLOWER
TAKE STH DOWN
PICK STH /SB UP
DO STH UP
SETTLE DOWN IN
TIDY STH UP
LET SB DOWN
KNOW HOW TO DO
HEARD FROM SB
LOOKED UP TO
BE IN THE MOOD TO
DESERVE TO BE
TOO EXPENSIVE
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF
BE IN THE HABIT OF
HAVE EVERY CHANCE TO
IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING
STRIKE YOU AS
LET ALONE
SUCH WAS THE FORCE OF
NOUN
– COMPARISON / IDIOM -
VERB
- PHRASAL VERB / PREPOSITIONAL VERB
PREPOSITION
– PHRASAL PREPOSITIONAL VERB / PREPOSITIONAL VERB
ADV
– PHRASAL VERB -
DETERMINER
– COMPARISON
PRONOUN - IDIOM / COMPARISON / SET PHRASE
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