Cambridge English C1 Advanced • CAE Key Word Transformations (2022-04)
This course will enhance your ability to paraphrase sentences and help you increase your language abilities from intermediate to advanced levels (B2 to C1).
The Key Word Transformation is part 4 of the Reading and Use of English paper.
In this part , a wide range of different grammatical structures and vocabulary are tested.
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.
This ebook contains a list of the 300 most common transformations that come up in this part of the exam.
The book is intended to be used by senior students of linguistics departments. It covers the following topics: short history of theoretical grammar, the grammar of IC, the origin and development of transformational grammar, transformations in simple sentences and sentence sequences, transformations of nominalisation.
MOST COMMON TRANSFORMATIONS (KEY WORD TRANSFORMATION)
This book contains a compilation of the words and expressions that come up most frequently in the Key Word Transformation task of the Cambridge Reading and Use of English paper. It will help you to familiarise yourself with the usual transformations among set phrases , phrasal verbs, phrasal prepositional verbs, idioms ,etc.