The Second Coming Textual Grammar
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Solutions Set 1:
1. The falcon
cannot hear the falconer. (Change into interrogative)
Ans: Can the falcon not hear the
falconer?
2. The
blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is
drowned. (Change the voice)
Ans: The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and
everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
3. Are full of passionate
intensity. (Rewrite using the noun form of
‘passionate’)
Ans: Are they full of intense
passion?
4. The best lack all conviction.
The worst are full of passionate intensity. ( Join using ‘although’)
Ans: Although the best lack all
conviction, the worst are full of passionate intensity.
5. Mere anarchy
is loosed upon the world. The blood-dimmed tide is loosed. ( Join using ‘because’)
Ans: Mere anarchy is loosed upon
the world because the blood-dimmed tide is loosed.
The Second
Coming Textual Grammar Solutions Set 2:
1. The best
lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. (Rewrite using ‘so…that’ )
Ans: The best lack all conviction,
so bad that they are full of passionate intensity.
2. The best
lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. (Change the voice)
Ans: All conviction is lacked by the
best, while passionate intensity is full of the worst.
3. The best
lack all conviction. (Rewrite using the verb form
of ‘lack’)
Ans: The best are lacking all conviction.
4. Things fall
apart. The centre cannot hold. ( Combine
using ‘while’)
Ans: While things fall apart, the
centre cannot hold.
5. “The best
lack all conviction,” he said. ( Change the
mode of Narration)
Ans: He said that the best lack all
conviction.
The Second
Coming Textual Grammar Solutions Set 3:
1. Mere anarchy
is loosed upon the world. (Change into Negative)
Ans: Mere anarchy is not loosed upon the
world.
2. Mere anarchy
is loosed upon the world. (Change the voice)
Ans: Anarchy looses mere upon the world.
3. The ceremony
of innocence is drowned. (Rewrite using the noun form
of ‘innocence‘)
Ans: Innocent ceremony is drowned.
4. A shape with
lion body and the head of a man. A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun. ( Join into a complex sentence)
Ans: A shape with lion body and the head
of a man, where a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun.
5. He said,
“Can the falcon hear the falconer?” ( Change the
mode of Narration)
Ans: He asked if the falcon can hear the
falconer.
The Second
Coming Textual Grammar Solutions Set 4:
1. Things fall
apart; the centre cannot hold. (Rewrite
using ‘but’)
Ans: Things fall apart, but the centre cannot hold.
2. The ceremony
of innocence is drowned. (Change the voice)
Ans: Innocence is drowned by the
ceremony.
3. Things fall
apart. (Rewrite using the noun form of ‘fall‘)
Ans: The fall of things apart.
4. The best
lack all conviction. The worst are full of passionate intensity. ( Join into a compound sentence)
Ans: The best lack all conviction, but
the worst are full of passionate intensity.
5. He exclaimed, “The
ceremony of innocence is drowned!”( Change the
mode of Narration)
Ans: He exclaimed that the ceremony of
innocence was drowned.
The Second
Coming Textual Grammar Solutions Set 5:
1. Surely some
revelation is at hand. (Change the sentence into an
interrogative)
Ans: Is not some revelation surely
at hand?
2. A vast image
out of Spiritus Mundi troubles my sight. ( Change
the voice)
Ans: My sight is troubled by a vast image
out of Spiritus Mundi.
3. Surely some revelation
is at hand. (Change ‘revelation’ to an adjective)
Ans: Surely some revelatory event is at
hand.
4. Surely some
revelation is at hand. (Change to complex)
Ans: Surely some revelation, which
is awaited by all, is at hand
5. He said,
“What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to
be born?” (Change the mode of Narration)
Ans: He asked what rough beast, its hour
having come round at last, slouched towards Bethlehem to be born.
The Second
Coming Textual Grammar Solutions Set 6:
1. Surely the
Second Coming is at hand. (Change the sentence into a
negative)
Ans: Surely the Second Coming is
not at hand.
2. A shape with
lion body and the head of a man is moving its slow thighs. ( Change the voice)
Ans: Its slow thighs are being
moved by a shape with lion body and the head of a man.
3. When a vast
image out of Spiritus Mundi troubles my sight. (Change
‘image’ to an adjective)
Ans: When a vast imagistic figure out of
Spiritus Mundi troubles my sight.
4. Surely the
Second Coming is at hand. (Change to complex)
Ans: Surely the Second Coming,
which has been long predicted, is at hand.
5. He exclaimed that the
Second Coming was near and hardly were those words out when a vast image out of
Spiritus Mundi troubled his sight. (Change the
mode of Narration)
Ans: He exclaimed, “The Second Coming!
Hardly are those words out when a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi troubles my
sight.”
The Second
Coming Textual Grammar Solutions Set 7:
1. The Second
Coming! Hardly are those words out. ( Join into
a compound sentence)
Ans: The Second Coming! And hardly are
those words out.
2. I know that
twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmares by a rocking cradle.
( Change the voice)
Ans: It is known by me that twenty
centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle.
3. When a vast image out
of Spiritus Mundi troubles my sight. (Change
‘vast’ to an adverb)
Ans: When an image out of Spiritus
Mundi vastly troubles my sight.
4. Hardly are
those words out when a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi troubles my sight. (Change to compound)
Ans: Those words are hardly out, and a
vast image out of Spiritus Mundi troubles my sight.
5. He said that
the Second Coming was near. (Change the mode of Narration)
Ans: He said, “The Second Coming is
near.”
The Second
Coming Textual Grammar Solutions Set 8:
1. The Second
Coming! Hardly are those words out when a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
troubles my sight.(Rewrite the sentence
beginning with ‘Hardly’)
Ans: Hardly are those words out when a
vast image out of Spiritus Mundi troubles my sight.
2. A gaze blank
and pitiless as the sun is moving its slow thighs. ( Change the voice)
Ans: Its slow thighs are being moved by a
gaze blank and pitiless as the sun.
3. A gaze blank
and pitiless as the sun. (Change ‘blank’ to an adverb)
Ans: A gaze blankly and pitilessly as the
sun.
4. When a vast
image out of Spiritus Mundi troubles my sight, I feel a deep sense of unease. (Change to compound)
Ans: A vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
troubles my sight, and I feel a deep sense of unease.
5. He asked what rough
beast, its hour having come round at last, slouched towards Bethlehem to be
born. (Change the mode of Narration)
Ans: He asked, “What rough beast, its
hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
The Second
Coming Textual Grammar Solutions Set 9:
1. A shape with lion body
and the head of a man is moving its slow thighs. (Change the sentence to an exclamatory sentence)
Ans: What a strange shape with lion body
and the head of a man is moving its slow thighs!
2. Reel shadows
of the indignant desert birds all about it. ( Change the voice)
Ans: All about it, shadows of the
indignant desert birds are reeled.
3. A gaze blank
and pitiless as the sun. (Change ‘pitiless’ to an
adverb)
Ans: A gaze blankly and pitilessly as the
sun.
4. The Second
Coming is at hand, and I sense its significance. (Change to simple)
Ans: The Second Coming, with its
significant presence, is at hand.
5. A shape with
lion body and the head of a man. A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun. ( Join the following sentences)
Ans: A shape with the body of a lion and
the head of a man has a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun.
The Second
Coming Textual Grammar Solutions Set 10:
1. A shape with
lion body and the head of a man is moving its slow thighs. ( Turn into a complex sentence)
Ans: A shape, which has the body of a
lion and the head of a man, is moving its slow thighs.
2. The ceremony
of innocence is drowned. ( Change the
voice)
Ans: The blood-dimmed tide drowns
the ceremony of innocence.
3. Troubles my
sight. (Change ‘troubles’ to a noun)
Ans: Causes trouble to my sight.
4. A gaze blank
and pitiless as the sun is moving its slow thighs. (Change to complex)
Ans: A gaze, which is blank and pitiless
as the sun, is moving its slow thighs.
5. Is moving
its slow thighs. All about it reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
( Join the following sentences)
Ans: While it is moving its slow
thighs, shadows of the indignant desert birds reel all about it.
Textual Grammar
Solutions Set 11:
1. The gaze is
blank and pitiless as the sun. (Turn into
an exclamatory sentence)
Ans: How blank and pitiless the
gaze is as the sun!
2. My sight is
troubled by a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi. ( Change the voice)
Ans: A vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
troubles my sight.
3. Slouches
towards Bethlehem to be born. (Change ‘slouches’ to a noun)
Ans: Moves with a slouch towards
Bethlehem to be born.
4. A shape with
lion body and the head of a man is moving its slow thighs, and shadows of the
indignant desert birds reel all about it. (Change to
complex)
Ans: A shape with the body of a lion and
the head of a man is moving its slow thighs while shadows of the indignant
desert birds reel all about it.
5. The darkness
drops again. Now I know. ( Join the
following sentences)
Ans: As the darkness drops again, I now
know.
Textual Grammar
Solutions Set 12:
1. The darkness
drops again. I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to
nightmares by a rocking cradle. ( Join using
‘so..that’)
Ans: The darkness drops again so that I
know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking
cradle.
2. Twenty
centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle. ( Change the voice)
Ans: A rocking cradle vexed twenty
centuries of stony sleep to nightmare.
3. When a vast
image out of Spiritus Mundi troubles my sight. (Change
‘image’ to a verb)
Ans: When a vast figure from
Spiritus Mundi images my sight.
4. He said, “Surely some
revelation is at hand.” (Change the narration)
Ans: He said that surely some revelation
was at hand.
5. Twenty centuries of
stony sleep were vexed to nightmare. A rocking cradle did it. ( Join the following sentences)
Ans: Twenty centuries of stony sleep were
vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle.
Textual Grammar
Solutions Set 13:
1. A gaze blank
and pitiless as the sun is moving its slow thighs. ( Turn into a complex sentence)
Ans: While a gaze blank and pitiless as
the sun is moving its slow thighs, shadows of the indignant desert birds reel
all about it.
2. A shape with
lion body and the head of a man. (Change
‘shape’ to a verb)
Ans: A form with lion body and the head
of a man shapes before me
3. He said, “A
shape with lion body and the head of a man, a gaze blank and pitiless as the
sun, is moving its slow thighs.” ( Change the
Narration)
Ans: He said that a shape with the body
of a lion and the head of a man, with a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, was
moving its slow thighs.
4. A vast image
out of Spiritus Mundi troubles my sight. It is somewhere in the sands of the
desert. ( Join the following sentences)
Ans: A vast image out of Spiritus Mundi,
which is somewhere in the sands of the desert, troubles my sight.
5. He said that a shape
with the body of a lion and the head of a man, with a gaze blank and pitiless
as the sun, was moving its slow thighs. ( Change
the mode of Narration)
Ans: He said, “A shape with lion body and
the head of a man, a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, is moving its slow
thighs.”
Textual Grammar
Solutions Set 14:
1. A shape with
lion body and the head of a man is moving its slow thighs. ( Turn into question)
Ans: Is not a shape with lion body
and the head of a man moving its slow thighs?
2. Somewhere in
sands of the desert. (Change ‘sands’ to a verb)
Ans: Somewhere the desert sands around.
3. He said that
surely some revelation was at hand. ( Change the
Narration)
Ans: He said, “Surely some
revelation is at hand.”
4. The Second
Coming is at hand. Hardly are those words out. ( Join the following sentences)
Ans: Hardly are the words about the
Second Coming out when it is at hand.
5. He said,
“Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.”( Change the mode of Narration)
Ans: He said that shadows of the
indignant desert birds reeled around.
Textual Grammar
Solutions Set 15:
1. The best
lack all conviction; the worst are full of passionate intensity. ( Join with ‘although’)
Ans: Although the best lack all
conviction, the worst are full of passionate intensity.
2. Reel shadows
of the indignant desert birds. (Change
‘reel’ to an adjective)
Ans: Reeling shadows of the indignant
desert birds.
3. He said that
surely the Second Coming was at hand. ( Change
the Narration)
Ans: He said, “Surely the Second
Coming is at hand.”
4. The darkness
drops again. Now I know what has happened. ( Join
the following sentences)
Ans: The darkness drops again, and now I
know what has happened.
5. He asked
what rough beast, its hour having come round at last, slouched towards
Bethlehem to be born. ( Change the mode of Narration)
Ans: He asked, “What rough beast, its
hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
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