The ESL HELP! Desk

Part 2: Transitive Verbs and Prepositions, Cont.

 

Exercise 3
For each pod, we will give you one sentence.  Create the two other ways of saying the same thing. For this activity, we will be using two different sentence structures.  Fill in the blanks with either a pronoun (it, him, etc.) or a preposition (to, for, etc.). Print this out before you begin this activity and then you can check your answers.
They told me the story.	Velazquez gave Juan his freedom.
They told the story to me.	Velazguez gave his freedom to Juan.
They told it to me.	Velazquez gave it to Juan.
We buy everybody snacks.	It was my turn to show the agents my suitcase.
We buy snacks for everybody.	It was my turn to show my suitcase to the agents.
We buy them for them.	It was my turn to show it to them.
I asked Sue several questions.
I asked several questions to Sue.

 

Next... Separable and Non-separable Verbs

 

In our next lesson, we learn about separable and non-separable verbs.

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