The objective is to reorder the words or phrases into a syntactically coherent and complete sentence. Following are some exercises that you can do to make yourself better at solving jumbled sentences.
Rearrange Sentences Exercises
- join/college/decided to/at the/I/thirty-five/age of
- worried/to study/about/my ability/not/I was
- confused teenager/not a/grown-up/was a/woman and/I
- I realised/than me/the teenagers/very soon/that/were better
Answer
- I decided to join college at the age of thirty-five.
- I was not worried about my ability to study.
- I was a grown-up woman and not a confused teenager.
- Very soon I realised that the teenagers were better than me.
Q. Rearrange the following groups of words and phrases to form meaningful sentences:
- are machines/to think/robots/that use/a computer brain
- are sent/computer brain/in the robot’s parts/messages/from the/to motors
- can be/to do/of work/robots/programmed/many kinds
- is the/computer science/concerned with/robotics/field/and engineering/creating robots
Answer
- Robots are machines that use a computer brain to think.
- Messages are sent from the computer brain to motors in the robot’s parts.
- Robots can be programmed to do many kinds of work.
- Robotics is the field of computer science and engineering concerned with creating robot
Q. Rearrange the following groups of words and phrases to form meaningful sentences:
- threat/earth/global/to/on/today/is/warming/the/biggest/life/single
- average/used/term/earth’s/rise/the/describe/in/temperature/is/to/unnatural/the
- the/warming/increased/driver/dioxide/primary/global/is/carbon/of
- impact/already/warming/is/creating/global/significant
Answer
- Global warming is the single biggest threat to life on earth today.
- The term is used to describe the unnatural rise in earth’s average temperature.
- Increased carbon dioxide is the primary driver of global warming.
- Global warming is already creating significant impact.
Q. Rearrange the following groups of words and phrases to form meaningful sentences:
- own/their/live/overconfident/thoughts/people/within
- others/they/of/know/unaware/are/but/themselves/they
- experience/others/use/of/of/they/unable/the/are/to/make
- habit/concerned/all/this/highly/to/of/kind/damaging/is
Answer
- Overconfident people live within their own thoughts.
- They know themselves but they are unaware of others.
- They are unable to make use of the experience of others.
- This kind of habit is highly damaging to all concerned.
Q. Rearrange the following groups of words and phrases to form meaningful sentences:
- cultural/of/the/anticipated/carnival/festival/Hornbill/most/is/Nagaland/the
- Located in Northeast India/state/very/is/beautiful/Nagaland/diverse/ethnically/a/and
- Hornbill/the/named/is/Indian/after/the/festival
- Naga/worn/the/traditional/festivities/often/on/is/headgears/displayed/hornbill/during/worn/tribal
Answer
- The Hornbill festival is the most anticipated cultural carnival of Nagaland.
- Located in Northeast India, Nagaland is very a beautiful and ethnically diverse state.
- The festival is named after the Indian Hornbill.
- The Hornbill is often displayed on the traditional tribal headgears worn during Naga festivities.
Q. Rearrange the following groups of words and phrases to form meaningful sentences:
- drugs/invented/one/man/of/useful/is/penicillin/most/the
- by/its/heal/we/help/bacteria/can/with/wounds/caused
- few/in/use/this/discovery/beginning/the wonder/and/very/people/of knew/its
- lives/soldiers/it/of/of/thousands/hundreds/saved/the/of
Answer
- Penicillin is one of the most useful drugs man invented.
- We can heal wounds caused by bacteria with its help.
- In the beginning very few people know of this wonder discovery and its use.
- It saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
Q. Rearrange the following groups of words and phrases to form meaningful sentences:
- the temple/architecture/form an/sculpture and painting/of/essential part
- is/situated in/Konark Temple/north-eastern part of Puri/the
- of a chariot/the temple/in the form/is
- Narasimhadeva/the/king/by/is/that/it/was/believed/temple/built
Answer
- Sculpture and painting form an integral part of the temple architecture.
- Konark Temple is situated in the north eastern part of Puri.
- The temple is in the form of a chariot.
- It is believed that the temple was built by King Narasimhadeva.
Q. Rearrange the following groups of words and phrases to form meaningful sentences:
- today/with/their/the/in/gadgets/children/born/are/hands
- games/and/surf/they/to/video/love/internet/play
- these/only/lives/their/technology/wonders/revolve/of/around
- hampered/any/their/game/they/outdoor/as/growth/is/physical/do not/play
Answer
- Today the children are born with gadgets in their hands.
- They love to play video games and surf Internet.
- Their lives revolve around these wonders of technology only.
- Their physical growth is hampered as they do not play any outdoor game.
Q. Rearrange the following groups of words and phrases to form meaningful sentences:
- love/Indians/celebrate/to/festivals
- enjoy/time/they/with/spending/families/their
- exchanged/are/and/sweets/are/gifts/distributed
- even/away/some/stay/people/work/from
Answer
- Indians love to celebrate festivals.
- They enjoy spending time with their families.
- Gifts are exchanged and sweets are distributed.
- Some people even stay away from work.
Q. Rearrange the following words/phrases to form meaningful sentences.
- poverty/the village people/from/most/suffer/of
- in rural areas/is/employment opportunities/there/of/lack
- come to cities/in/people/so/of work/search
- appalling/conditions/cities/they/in/live/in
Answers
- Most of the village people suffer from poverty.
- There is lack of employment opportunities in rural areas.
- So, in search of work people come to cities.
- They live in cities in appalling conditions.
Q. Rearrange the following word clusters to make meaningful sentences:
- very exciting/can be/new country/travelling to/a
- it/a lot of/before/actually requires/the visit/preparation
- option/is/light/travelling/best/the
- also need/we/the local weather/in mind/to/keep
- always/enriched/we/return/experience/the/with
Answer
- Travelling to a new country can be very exciting.
- It actually requires a lot of preparation before the visit.
- Travelling light is the best option.
- We also need to keep the local weather in mind.
- We always return enriched with the experience.
Q. Rearrange the words/phrases given below to for meaningful sentences:
- standing/at the/one day/I/beach/was
- number/come/of people/a large/had/there
- hawkers/there/eatables/so many/were/selling
- wave/suddenly/came/huge/a
- road/all the/rushed/towards/the/people
Answer
- One day I was standing at the beach.
- A large number of people had come there.
- So many hawkers were selling eatables there.
- A huge wave came suddenly.
- All the people rushed towards the road.
Q. Rearrange any four of the following word or phrases to make meaningful sentences.
- enters/millions of tons/the/every year/of/ocean/plastic
- are/waters/sightings/junk-filled/of/common
- population/middle-class/increasing/is/coastlines/along
- trash/increase/has led/waste management/lack/of/in/to
- close/like/others/helping/my/friends
Answer
- Millions of tons of plastic enters the ocean every year.
- Sightings of junk filled waters are common.
- Middle-class population is increasing along coastlines.
- Lack of waste management has led to increase in trash.
- My close friends like helping others.
Q. Rearrange the following words/phrases to form meaningful sentences.
- work and play/things/different/parents see/as two
- is a/of time/they/waste/think/that playing
- important/games/studies/are as/as
- a student/to both/proper/should/attention/pay
- can/life/only/succeed/he/in/then
Answer
- Parents see work and play as two different things.
- They think that playing is a waste of time.
- Games are as important as studies.
- A student should pay proper attention to both.
- Only then he can succeed in life.
Q. Rearrange the following words/phrases to form meaningful sentences.
- arrested/criminals/were/in Varanasi/four
- steal/tried to/they/from/museum/a Buddha/statue/the
- in place/famous/the/is back/statue
- Department/thanked/the/museum the/authorities/Police
- once/open/for/the/is/museum/the/tourists/again/now
Answer
- Four criminals were arrested in Varanasi.
- They tried to steal a Buddha statue from the museum.
- The famous statue is back in place.
- The museum authorities thanked the Police Department.
- The museum is now open for the tourists once again.
Q. Rearrange the jumbled words and phrases into meaningful sentences.
- do not/leaves/have/they/but/spiny needles
- flowers/and/bloom/some of them/cacti/at night/are big
- absorb/from fog/water/in the air/cacti can
- is/plant/aloe vera/a/common/cactus
- cactus/a/are/large/of/found/variety
Answer
- They do not have leaves but spiny needles.
- Cacti flowers are big and some of them bloom at night.
- Cacti can absorb water from fog in the air.
- Aloe vera is a common cactus plant.
- A large variety of cactus are found.
Q. Rearrange the following words/phrases to form meaningful sentences.
- is/of milk/the country/also/producer/the highest
- is staring/but/at a/major/it/crisis/fodder
- due to/pressure/of/it/is/growing/population on land
- more/chief minister/farmers grow/to/encouraging/fodder/is/the
- fulfilled/fodder/that/so/can be/the/demand
Answer
- The country is also the highest producer of milk.
- But it is staring at a major fodder crisis.
- It is due to pressure of growing population on land.
- The Chief Minister is encouraging farmers to grow more fodder.
- So that the fodder demand can be fulfilled.
Q. Rearrange the jumbled words and phrases into meaningful sentences.
- to be a/kind/this was/of protest/considered/unique
- could not/the soldiers/Alexander/to move/persuade/ahead
- finally/them/he/asked/to retreat
- final/his/this/decision/was
- lead/army/the/the/decision/to/further/move back
Answer
- This was considered to be a unique kind of protest.
- Alexander could not persuade the soldiers to move ahead.
- Finally he asked them to retreat.
- This was his final decision.
- The decision further lead the army to move back.
Q. Rearrange the following words/phrases to form meaningful sentences.
- illiterate/remain/the/and/backward/poor /people
- easily/by/they/cheated/are/others
- our/it is/to help/moral duty/to become/literate/ever one
- be/can/increased/the/rate/thus/literacy
- illiteracy/of/towards/eradication/one/one/is/each/teach/a/step
Answer
- The poor and backward people remain illiterate.
- They are easily cheated by others.
- It is our moral duty to help everyone to become literate.
- Thus the literacy rate can be increased.
- Each one teach one is a step towards eradication of illiteracy.
Q. Rearrange the following words/phrases to form meaningful sentences.
- ideal citizen/the nation/an/to/an asset/is
- makes/he/a valuable contribution/nation building/to/activities
- he/his/knows/and/rights/responsibilities
- his country/of/he abides/the/by/laws
Answer
- An ideal citizen is an asset to the nation.
- He makes a valuable contribution to nation building activities.
- He knows his rights and responsibilities.
- He abides by the laws of his country.
Q. Rearrange the jumbled words and phrases into meaningful sentences.
- nation/is the/of any/culture/key element
- nation/cultural/every/has its own/identity
- of a/spirituality/soul/nation/is/the
- are/high/praised/moral/always/spirits
- country/is/a/different/India/cultures
Answer
- Culture is the key element of any nation.
- Every nation has its own cultural identity.
- Spirituality is the soul of a nation.
- High moral spirits are always praised.
- India is a country of different cultures.
Q. Rearrange the jumbled words and phrases into meaningful sentences.
- are/more than/there/in your/two thousand/homeless/living/town
- only/five/night/but/shelters/four to/are/available
- great/have/hope/the homeless/from/government/the
- Plans/worthy/launched/has/Minister/Prime/the/present
- are/worthy/these/already/plans/in/progress
Answer
- There are more than two thousand homeless living in your town.
- But only four to five night shelters are available.
- The homeless have great hope from the government.
- The present Prime Minister has launched worthy plans.
- These worthy plans are already in progress.
Q. Look at the words and phrases given below. Rearrange them to form meaningful sentences.
- as/some/sports/people/easy/very/consider
- is/the/require/hard work/truth/rigorous/that they
- also/is/an/training/sports/essential/part of
- also/values/sports/morally/high/require Ali
- discipline/teach/spirit and/sports/team
Answer
- Some people consider sports as very easy.
- The truth is that they require rigorous hard work.
- Training is also an essential part of sports.
- Sports also require high moral values.
- Sports teach discipline and team spirit.
Q. Rearrange the jumbled words and phrases into meaningful sentences.
- has/largest/population/India/the/of the young
- over/countries/in this way,/an edge/other/India has/developing
- can/creativity/only/source of/the youth/be a
- the/on/development/youth/depends/country’s/the
- are/youth/the/today’s/of/tomorrow/citizens
Answer
- India has the largest population of the young.
- In this way, India has an edge over other developing countries.
- Only the youth can be source of creativity.
- The country’s development depends on the youth.
- Today’s youth are the citizens of tomorrow.
Q. Rearrange the jumbled words and phrases into meaningful sentences.
- this state/very rich/flora and/in/is/fauna
- thick/and/it has/forests,/big rivers/blue hill
- is/home to/wild/it/many/animals
- are/floods/the/in/Brahmaputra/disastrous
- away/that/everything/comes/its/floods/the/can/carry
Answer
- This state is very rich in flora and fauna.
- It has thick forests, big rivers and blue hills.
- It is home to many wild animals.
- The floods in Brahmaputra are disastrous.
- The floods can carry away everything that comes in its way.
Q. Rearrange the words and phrases given below to form meaningful sentences.
- this man/on/at the/Kwality Restaurant/was last seen/Parliament Street
- this man/decides to give/the police/unless/will not/a reward/be caught
- to his arrest/information/it/would provide/leading
- be/given/thousand/ten/a/cash/at/least/amount/of/rupees/should
- man/made/of/the/common/should/it/be/aware
Answer
- This man was last seen at the Kwality Restaurant on Parliament Street.
- Unless the police decides to give a reward, this man will not be caught.
- It would provide information leading to his arrest.
- At least a cash amount of rupees ten thousand should be given.
- The common man should be made aware of it.
Q. Rearrange the following words and phrases into meaningful sentences.
- these days/of trade/Delhi/for/has become/but/a centre /tender coconuts
- its demand/value/due/to/has increased/of the fruit /the food
- has been fuelled/growing awareness/the demand/health benefits/coconut water’s/of
- many/diseases/is prescribed/in/water/coconut.
- quenchers/summers/one/is/it/best/of/thirst/the best/during
Answer
- But these days Delhi has become a centre of trade for tender coconuts.
- Its demand has increased due to the food value of the fruit.
- The demand has been fuelled by growing awareness of coconut water’s health benefits.
- Coconut water is prescribed in many diseases.
- It is one of the best thirst quenchers during summers.
Q. Look at the words and phrases given below. Rearrange them to form meaningful sentences.
- eyes/beautiful/and precious/from God/to us/are/gift
- thankful/to God/should/we/be/it/for
- remember/we /him/distress/in/only
- to /always/god/should
- ultimate/is/our/God/saviour
Answer
- Eyes are beautiful and precious gift to us from God.
- We should be thankful to God for it.
- We remember him only in distress.
- We should always be grateful to God.
- God is our ultimate saviour.
Q. Rearrange the words and phrases given below to form meaningful sentences.
- fast foods/their/making/children/are/staple diet
- causing/is/among/a great alarm /health experts/it
- need/that/get/healthy food/we/to ensure /our children
- the/all/food/nutrients/contain/should/essential
- many/to/leads/obesity/diseases
Answer
- Children are making fast foods their staple diet.
- It is causing a great alarm among health experts.
- We need to ensure that our children get healthy food.
- Food should contain all the essential nutrients.
- Obesity leads to many diseases.
Q. Rearrange the following words/phrases to form meaningful sentences.
- and develop/one can gain/great/physical stamina
- today/introduced/been/advanced/have/techniques/climbing
- popular/institutions/is/educational/in/rock climbing
- Popular/youngsters/very/is/in/it
- in/it/hilly/can/ares/be/only/done
Answer
- One can gain great confidence and develop physical stamina.
- Today advanced climbing techniques have been introduced.
- Rock climbing is popular in educational institutions.
- It is very popular in youngsters.
- t can be done in hilly areas only.
Q. Look at the words and phrases given below. Rearrange them to form meaningful sentence.
- dying from cancer /can help/of/eating/cut the risk/flax seeds
- or salads/sprinkled on cereals/can be/they
- kills/contain/flax seeds /cancer cells/a special compound /which
- local general stores/all/obtained/flax seeds /may be/from
- very/are/seeds/these/beneficial
Answer
- Eating flax seeds can help out the risk of dying from cancer.
- They can be sprinkled on cereals or salads.
- Flax seeds contain a special compound which kills cancer cells.
- Flax seeds may be obtained from all local general stores.
- These seeds are very beneficial.
Q. Look at the words and phrases given below. Rearrange them to form meaningful sentences.
- facing/is/a crisis/paper industry/Tanzania/in
- read/hardly/have/to/they/anything
- necessary/reading material/for/is/good education/good
- has come to/due to/the printing /the cost of paper/a standstill
- Popular/so/has/online/become/work
Answer
- Tanzania is facing a crisis in paper industry.
- They have hardly anything to read.
- Good reading material is necessary for good education.
- The printing has come to a standstill due to the cost of paper.
- So, online work has become popular.
Q. Look at the words and phrases given below. Rearrange them to form meaningful sentences.
- potter/in/once/a/a/lived/there/village
- innocent/was/a very/and
- for him/a problem /old donkey/his/had become
- sold/it/the donkey/the potter/fed up with/being
- thinking/but/animal/whole/the/he/night/the/about/was
Answer
- A Once there lived a potter in a village.
- He was a very innocent and simple fellow.
- His old donkeyhad become a problem for him.
- The potter being fed up with the donkey sold it.
- But he was thinking about the animal the whole night.
Rearrange the following words/phrases to form meaningful sentences.
- is/Devprayag/town/beautiful/a
- it/sparsely populated/a/is/in Uttarakhand/town
- an average/has/literacy rate/it/77%/of
- Devprayag/pandas/Badrinath Dham/the/is/seat of/
Answer
- Devprayag is a beautiful town.
- It is a sparsely populated town in Uttarakhand.
- It has an average literacy rate of 77%.
- Devprayag is the seat of Badrinath Dham pandas.
Q. Rearrange the following words/phrases to form meaningful sentences.
- part/Kilimanjaro National Park/of/is/the/Mount Kilimanjaro
- dormant volcano/a/in/Mount Kilimanjaro/Tanzania/is
- highest/Africa/it is/mountain/in/the
- has been /many/it/the subject of/studies/scientific
Answer
- Mount Kilimanjaro is part of the Kilimanjaro National Park.
- Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano in Tanzania.
- It is the highest mountain in Africa.
- It has been the subject of many scientific studies.
Q. Rearrange the following words/phrases to form meaningful sentences:
- take place/on/accidents/daily/almost/Indian roads
- Indian roads/16/daily/children/on/die
- of traffic rules/is/the chief cause/violation/accidents/of
- lack of/the saddest thing/public concern/is/for/the road victims
Answer
- Accidents take place almost daily on Indian roads.
- 16 children die daily on Indian roads. or16 children die on Indian roads daily.
- Violation of traffic rules is the chief cause of accidents.
- Lack of public concern for the road victims is the saddest thing.
Q. Rearrange the following words/phrases to form meaningful sentences.
- reward/its/is/honesty/own
- teaches us/our dealings/honest/religion/in/to be
- everywhere/and/is respected/honest man/an/admired.
- leads/he/a/and/happy/prosperous/life
Answer
- Honesty is its own reward.
- Religion teaches us to be honest in our dealings.
- An honest man is respected and admired everywhere.
- He leads a happy and prosperous life.
Q. Rearrange the following words/phrases to make meaningful sentences.
- face of/vaccination/small pox/the earth/from/eradicated/has/the
- it has also/polio and mumps/diseases/lessened/like
- is/immunity/an overall/by/vaccination/achieved
Answer
- Vaccination has eradicated small pox from the face of the earth.
- It has also lessened diseases like polio and mumps.
- An overall immunity is achieved by vaccination.
Q. Rearrange the following words and phrases into meaningful sentences.
- detective/below/go/written/through the/story
- can be/two/blamed/persons/the murder/for
- to the/there are/culprit/many clues/real/pointing
- the/find/murderer/who/real/out/is
Answer
- Go through the detective story written below.
- Two persons can be blamed for the murder.
- There are many clues pointing to the real culprit.
- Find out who is the real murderer
Q. Rearrange the following words and phrases into meaningful sentences.
- came/months/me/for/eight/to teach/he
- algebra and/a week/me/geometry/twice/he taught
- very poor/subjects/I was/in these/earlier
- very/now/proficient/have become/in them/I
Answer
- For eight months he came to teach me.
- He taught me algebra and geometry twice a week. or Twice a week, he taught me algebra and geometry.
- I was very poor in these two subjects earlier. or Earlier, I was very poor in these two subjects.
- Now, I have become very proficient in them. or I have now become very proficient in them.
Q. Rearrange the following words and phrases to form meaningful sentences:
- coloured bus/children/we saw/full of/a yellow/excited
- they were /we guessed/on the/planetarium/way/to the
- part/this/study tour/of their/was
Answer
- We saw a yellow coloured bus full of excited children.
- We guessed they were on the way to the planetarium.
- This was part of their study tour.
Q. Rearrange the following jumbled words/phrases to make meaningful sentences.
- inside/grandeur/the palace hall/it was/all
- interwoven/pearls/were/flower garlands/sparkling/with
- wooden stage/painted backcloth/the/decorated/with a/was
Answer
- It was all grandeur inside the palace hall.
- Flower garlands were interwoven with sparkling pearls.
- The wooden stage was decorated with a painted backcloth