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    Typical FCE Sentence Transformation Areas

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    The document lists 9 categories of sentence transformations that often appear in the sentence transformation exercise of the FCE exam, including comparative/superlative structures, passive voice changes, direct and indirect speech, auxiliary verbs, conditionals, unreal past tenses, verb patterns, phrasal verbs, and multiple changes to sentences. It notes that questions may require changing aspects like voice and incorporating phrasal verbs.

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    The document lists 9 categories of sentence transformations that often appear in the sentence transformation exercise of the FCE exam, including comparative/superlative structures, passive voice changes, direct and indirect speech, auxiliary verbs, conditionals, unreal past tenses, verb patterns, phrasal verbs, and multiple changes to sentences. It notes that questions may require changing aspects like voice and incorporating phrasal verbs.

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    The document lists 9 categories of sentence transformations that often appear in the sentence transformation exercise of the FCE exam, including comparative/superlative structures, passive voice changes, direct and indirect speech, auxiliary verbs, conditionals, unreal past tenses, verb patterns, phrasal verbs, and multiple changes to sentences. It notes that questions may require changing aspects like voice and incorporating phrasal verbs.

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    Typical FCE Sentence Transformation Areas

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    The document lists 9 categories of sentence transformations that often appear in the sentence transformation exercise of the FCE exam, including comparative/superlative structures, passive voice changes, direct and indirect speech, auxiliary verbs, conditionals, unreal past tenses, verb patterns, phrasal verbs, and multiple changes to sentences. It notes that questions may require changing aspects like voice and incorporating phrasal verbs.

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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

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