This document provides examples of sentence transformation patterns involving various phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs. The patterns include: objecting to something, feeling like doing something, being typical of someone, having difficulty doing something, refusing to do something, and being good at something. For each pattern, it gives the original sentence and prompts to transform it according to the pattern. This allows the reader to practice different sentence transformation skills.

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PATTERNS:
13.TO OBJECT TO STH (objetar, no estar de acuerdo, mostrar
desacuerdo)
14.TO FEEL LIKE (apetecer)………-ing or to+infinitive?
15.TO BE TYPICAL OF sby………
16.TO HAVE DIFFICULTY ……..
17.TO REFUSE…..-ing or to+infinitive?
18.TO BE GOOD ……in/at?

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13. Citizens don’t like the Government’s new measures.
OBJECT
Citizens ……………………………………………………………………..……new masures
14. Linda was not in the mood to eat yesterday.
FEEL
Linda …………………………………………………………………………..yesterday
OBJECT TO THE GOVERNMENT’S
TO BE IN THE MOOD TO= TO FEEL LIKE+-ING
DIDN’T FEEL LIKE EATING

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9. My father used to joke about difficult situations.
TYPICAL
It was………………………………………………………………………..……joke about different
situations
10. The police recovered the jewels very easily.
DIFFICULTY
The police had ……………………………………………………………………………..the jewels
TYPICAL OF MY FATHER TO
NO DIFFICULTY IN RECOVERING

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11. Some employees dind’t want to support the strike
REFUSED
Some employees………………………………………………………the strike
12. Tom can’t organize his social life very well.
GOOD
Tom……………………………………………………………….……his social life.
TO REFUSE + TO + INFINITIVE.
TO BE GOOD/BAD AT + -ING
REFUSED TO SUPPORT
IS NOT GOOD AT ORGANIZING