sentence: I knew that skating was the thing I wanted to do for the rest of my life , the thing I wanted to tell people about when they asked me what my favorite thing to do was .
modified: I knew that skating is the thing I want to do for the rest of my life , the thing I want to tell people about when they ask me what your favorite thing to do is .
transformation: VERB:TENSE, VERB:TENSE, VERB:TENSE, VERB:TENSE, DET, VERB:TENSE