Assignment on Transformational Rules

Transformation rule is a kind of rule that helps in the transformation of syntactic structure, before going further let’s have a clear idea what does this syntactic structure means (It is the study of different rules where different kind of the words or elements of the sentence structure are being combined with one another to make the grammatical sentences). Deletion, insertion and movement are some of the basic instances of these transformational rules. In a Basic English language, we all know that to understand about the sentence structure it is very essential that one must have a general understanding of all the types of words that are required to make up a complete sentence. Any basic or simple sentence in English Language mainly consists of three of the basic parts and they are Subject + Verb + Object. There are many students who simply translate the sentences that are present in other languages like  سعدت بلقائك and it means that “I am pleased to meet you”. There are very few people who keep the sentence structure same by following all of the rules accordingly. Grammar needs to be correct as well because otherwise no one would understand the meaning of sentence. So keeping the sentence structure correct and following all the rules and grammar things accurate are very essential. One should be careful about the duplicating the Arabic sentence structure as well.

Now coming towards the two different categories of Transformation, they are:

·         Rigid transformation, it is the kind of transformation which don’t change the size or even shape of the 1-preimage.

·         Non-rigid transformation is the kind of transformation that definitely will change the size but it won’t affect the shape 2 of the preimage.

Moving further towards the types of these rigid and non-rigid transformation, there are further four types. Out of four types, three are the ones that falls in the rigid transformation category and the other one falls in the non-rigid transformation category.

Interrogative and Imperative word should not be new here because we are going to discuss some of the things about both of these types. Questions that we see or come across on daily basis are in the interrogative form. A very important feature of the interrogative sentences is the normally they have a subject in them that comes directly after the auxiliary verb. Example of this type is, Did you take your vitamin this morning?

Coming towards the Imperative sentences, they are completely different from the interrogative sentences because in interrogative sentences person asks a question but in Imperative sentences, order or command is being given to the next person. It has a subject in it and that subject is clearly understood to be you. Commands that are being given or used in the sentences sometimes sound to be so impatient and rude that it may hurt the feelings of other person.

Example of imperative sentence is, Go out of my room right now!

By using the transformational rules we can easily change the structure of sentence from the interrogative sentence into the assertive sentence. Assertive sentences are most commonly used in the English language. These are the sentences that are being used to assert or declare any feeling, statement, history or anything. Assertive sentences end with the period.

Examples:

·         Is chocolate better than a cake? Interrogative sentence

Chocolate is way better than a cake. Assertive sentence.

·         Why to get worried when God is here? Interrogative sentence.

It is completely foolish to get worried when God is with us. Assertive sentence.

Another type is that imperative sentences can also be changed in the interrogative sentences by using some of the rules. One should always try least to use the imperative sentences because I believe these sentences become bitter and they hurt the feelings of other people so easily that it is better to avoid them as much as possible. No one in this world likes to take orders and the other person should also be careful about it.

Examples:

·         Shut the door. Imperative sentence.

Will you shut the door? Interrogative sentence.

·         Open this bottle. Imperative sentence.

Will you open this bottle? Interrogative sentence.

See the difference how better it looks when imperative sentences are being changed into the interrogative ones. It seems so nice and without even hurting anyone you can ask others to help you. There is always a way and when rules are being used in a proper way things become really different and easy as well.

According to me it is very important for all the learners to learn the grammar rules and use them appropriately. Only learning should not be part of the play but applying them correctly in the sentences is something more productive. So always try to use the proper rules and follow them appropriately to make the sentence structure correct. If you know all the rules but you have no idea that how to use them and where to use them, according to me you know nothing about the rules so all of these two things go parallel and side by side.

Some more examples of Arabic sentences:

أين أنتي؟ = Where are you?

‫إلى اللقاء قريبًا! = See you soon!

 References of Transformational Rules:

1.      Newmeyer, F. J. (2017). English aspectual verbs (Vol. 203). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.

2.      Adetuyi, C. A., & Fidelis, O. O. (2016). Key concepts in transformational generative grammar. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES, 2(2), 8-16.