Let's go through exercise 7 step by step, focusing on transforming the sentences to say the same idea in different words.
The exercise demonstrated transformation with the example: "Jim didn’t have anything for lunch." -> "Jim had nothing for lunch."
Let's apply this to the provided sentences:
We didn’t meet anybody in the street.
- Transform: "We met nobody in the street."
They didn’t watch anything on TV yesterday.
- Transform: "They watched nothing on TV yesterday."
The tourist didn’t see anything interesting in the city centre.
- Transform: "The tourist saw nothing interesting in the city centre."
There wasn’t anything funny in his story.
- Transform: "There was nothing funny in his story."
He didn’t tell us anything new.
- Transform: "He told us nothing new."
They don’t have anything to do for yesterday evening.
- Transform: "They have nothing to do for yesterday evening."
Molly doesn’t cook anything for the zoo.
- Transform: "Molly cooks nothing for the zoo."
Mr Richardson didn’t take anybody to the zoo in the morning.
- Transform: "Mr Richardson took nobody to the zoo in the morning."
By turning sentences into their negative counterparts with "nothing" or "nobody," we maintain the original meaning while rephrasing them effectively.