All 6 question types explained with grammar rules, worked examples, and practice questions — based on the 2025 SEAB syllabus. No partial marks, so every rule counts.
Synthesis and Transformation is found in Booklet B of Paper 2. There are 5 questions, each worth 2 marks — making it a 10-mark section. Crucially, there are no partial marks: every part of the answer must be correct to score. A single grammatical error means zero for that question.
Unlike comprehension or grammar cloze where one blank is one mark, each S&T question is all-or-nothing. Getting 4 out of 5 correct gives 8/10, but a careless tense change in the last word of a reported speech answer can cost the full 2 marks for that question. Accuracy and checking are everything.
Try these questions before looking at the answers:
| # | Original Sentences | Keyword | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She was nervous. She performed brilliantly. | Although | Although she was nervous, she performed brilliantly. |
| 2 | The girl is my classmate. She won the spelling competition. | who | The girl who won the spelling competition is my classmate. |
| 3 | Tom said, "I cannot come to school today." | that | Tom said that he could not come to school that day. |
| 4 | The cleaners swept the floor after school. | by | The floor was swept by the cleaners after school. |
| 5 | You do not wear sunscreen. You will get sunburnt. | Unless | Unless you wear sunscreen, you will get sunburnt. |
| 6 | I had never heard such strange news. | Never | Never had I heard such strange news. |
At Clever Corner, students work through S&T systematically — learning each type until it becomes instinct, with real-time corrections from their teacher.