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.
