The homework this week is over sentence transformations. The question asks:
1.) Write the positive declarative sentence that corresponds to the transformed sentence
2.) Identify the sentence type
Sentence:
What courses have been scheduled for next fall?
I have written "next fall, what courses are scheduled?" but am unsure if this is correct? I'm not certain on how to actually undo a sentence transformation or what the question is actually looking for.
"declarative" means it's a statement, not a question.
How can you rephrase the original question into a statement?
Would it be: "Classes have been scheduled for next fall"?
I thought about that originally but then was worried about losing the meaning with the "what classes"?
"the positive declarative sentence" = a statement
"that corresponds to the transformed sentence" -- I'm not quite sure what is meant by this (unclear directions), but I'd go with what you've written.
Would it be: "Classes have been scheduled for next fall"?
I thought about that originally but then was worried about losing the meaning with the "what classes"?
To answer this question and undo the sentence transformation, you need to understand the original sentence's structure and transform it back into its positive declarative form. Here's how you can approach it:
1.) To undo the transformation, you need to convert the question into a positive declarative sentence. In the original sentence, "What courses have been scheduled for next fall?" is a question. To undo this transformation, you can simply convert it into a positive declarative statement. For example, you can say, "The courses scheduled for next fall are..."
2.) Now, let's identify the sentence type. The original sentence, "What courses have been scheduled for next fall?" is an interrogative sentence because it asks a question. In the transformed sentence, "The courses scheduled for next fall are...", it becomes a declarative sentence because it declares or states a fact.
Based on this explanation, your answer "next fall, what courses are scheduled?" is not the correct positive declarative sentence corresponding to the transformed sentence. The correct answer should be "The courses scheduled for next fall are..."