Sentence Reordering Exercises
Q. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful sentences:
- the/ on/ forests/ the/ industry/ oil/ depends
- do/ get/ the/ forests/ from/ what/ we/ products/?
- the/Indian/English/exploited/the/farmers
- pay/the/had to/poor farmers/high taxes/very
Answer
- The oil industry depends on the forests.
- What products do we get from the forests?
- The English exploited the Indian farmers.
- The poor farmers had to pay very high taxes.
Q. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful sentences:
- a/ lover/ is/ animal/ passionate/ he
- campaigned/ birds/ he/ caged/ free/ to
- to/ her/ first/ Sudha/ stand/ hard/ class/ is/ studying/ in
- healthy/ takes/ keep/ himself/ everyday/ exercise/ Kamal/ to
Answer
- He is a passionate animal lover.
- He campaigned to free caged birds.
- Sudha is studying hard to stand first in her class.
- Kamal takes exercise everyday to keep himself healthy.
Q. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful sentences:
- without/ time/ any stop/ on/ flows
- things/ this is why/ changing/ always/are
- change/ in fact, law of/ is/ the/ of nature
Answer
- Time flows on without any stop.
- This is why things are always changing.
- In fact, change is the law of nature.
Q. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful sentences:
- the/ on/ forests/ the/ industry/ oil/ depends
- give/ to/ armies/ wars/ forests/ during/ our/ cover
- do/ get/ the /forests/ from/ what/ we/ products?
- Below/not/ must/ age/ of/ eighteen/ years/ drive/ the/ children.
- Their/ room/ boys/ the/ are/ revising/ the/ lesson/ in
Answer
- The oil industry depends on the forests.
- Forests give cover to our armies during wars.
- What products do we get from the forests?
- The children of age below eighteen years must not drive.
- The boys are revising the lesson in their room.
Q. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful sentences:
- crowded/ railway platform/ last Sunday/ the/was/ unusually.
- vendors/ carrying/ were at/ sweet smelling/ flowers/ the/ platform.
- the train/ how/ they/ we wondered/ would/ get/ on.
- but/the train/ carefully/ they/ boarded/ very.
Answer
- The railway platform was unusually crowded last Sunday.
- Vendors carrying sweet smelling flowers were at the platform.
- We wondered how they would get on the train.
- But they boarded the train very carefully.
Q. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful sentences:
- he/ stepped out/ had/ hardly/ it began/ when/ to rain
- she/ rather/ surrender/ would/ than/ die
- has taught/ teacher/ the/ this/ you/ lesson
- not/ clear/ to me/ he says/ what/ is
- this/ letter/ has/ been/ your/ grandfather/ by/ written?
Answer
- Hardly had he stepped out when it began to rain.
- She would rather die than surrender.
- The teacher has taught you this lesson.
- What he says is not clear to me.
- Has this letter been written by your grandfather?
Q. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful sentences:
- Bimla/ her/ husband/ that/ told/ a coward/ he/ was
- he/ my letter/ received/ must have/ by now
- stories/ the/ wrote/ few/ that he/ romantic/ very/ were
- you/ would/ when/ meet her/ she /know/ did not
- English/ whom/ by/ you/ had/ been/ taught?
Answer
- Bimla told her husband that he was a coward.
- He must have received my letter by now.
- The few stories that he wrote are very romantic.
- She did not know when you would meet her.
- By whom had you been taught English?
Q. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful sentences:
- my winning a medal/ I told him/ until/ about/ not known/ he had
- on my bicycle/ to/ go/ I used to/ my school
- boy/ each/ was punished/ of the class/ yesterday
- how/ you had/ at the interview/ done/ us/ let/ know
- the class/ at once/ ordered/ you are/ to leave
Answer
- He had not known about my winning a medal until I told him.
- I used to go to my school on my bicycle.
- Each boy of the class was punished yesterday.
- Let us know how you had done at the interview.
- You are ordered to leave the class at once.
Q. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful sentences:
- you/ have/ how much/ experience/ got?
- I/ a little/ brought/ apple juice/ market/ from/ the
- completely/ being/ deaf,/ can’t/ anything/ he/ hear
- nothing/ is open/ so/ it’s/ a public holiday
- the few/ rupees/ I had/ I’ve/ spent already
- ink/ in the bottle/ much/ how/ there/ is?
Answer
- How much experience have you got?
- I brought a little apple juice from the market.
- Being completely deaf, he can’t hear anything.
- It’s a public holiday so nothing is open.
- I’ve already spent the few rupees I had.
- How much ink is there in the bottle?
Q. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful sentences:
- Exploiting/ man/ been/ the/ years/ has/ earth/ for.
- Was/ Taplow/ Frank/ Crocker/ encouraging/ about/ to speak/ against
- Started/ poet/ missing/ her/ after/ photograph/ her/ mother/ seeing.
- Sachin Tendulker/ appointed/ as/ brand/ has/ Rio/ Ambassador/ been/ of/ Olympics.
- Students/ the/ article/ write/ letter/ must/ suggestions/ a few/ end/ the/ in/of/to/ editor/ and/the
- Mystery/ Simon/ the/ Sir/ of/ a /death/ was.
- Gap/ father/ generation/ son/ though/ and/ blood/ have/ separates/ they/ relation.
- Changed/ educated/ his/ Ratna/ Ranga/ seeing/ mind/ after.
- System/ facts/ Albert/ on/ victim/ focus/ was/ education/ a/ of/ wrong/ where/ was/ only/ memorizing/ the.
Answer
- Man has been exploiting the earth for years.
- Frank was encouraging Taplow to speak against Crocker.
- Poet started missing her mother after seeing her photograph.
- Sachin Tendulker has been appointed as Brand Ambassador of Rio Olympics.
- Students must write a few suggestions in the end of letter to the editor and the article.
- The death of Sir Simon was a mystery.
- Generation gap separates father and son though they have blood relation.
- Educated Ranga changed his mind after seeing Ratna.
- Albert was a victim of wrong education system where the only focus was on memorizing facts.
Q. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful sentences:
- If we/ well/ our/ lost/ is/ don’t/ appetite/ sleep
- Drink/ of/ and/ inside/ lot/ stay/ and/ a/ water
- Laughter/ makes/ distinction/ yoga/ joy/ happiness/ and/ between/ clear.
- Dark/ woods/ lovely/ are/ deep/ and
- Make/ children/ snowman/ play/ and/ in winter
- Ruskin Bond/ famous/ writer/ English/ is/ who/ children/ a/write s/for
- Vast/ social/ is general studies/ that/ subject/ a/ science/ includes
- Face book/ used/ are/ sensibly/ twitter/ very/ if/ and/ useful
- Educated/ an/ identified/ person/ by/ is/ good/ his/ manners
- Live/ live/ to/ we/ eat/ not/ eat/ to/ should
Answer
- Our appetite is lost if we don’t sleep well.
- Drink a lot of water and stay inside/ stay inside.
- Laughter yoga makes clear distinction between happiness and joy.
- Woods are lovely, dark and deep.
- Children make snowman in winter and play.
- Ruskin Bond is a famous English writer who writes for children.
- Social Science is a vast subject which includes general studies.
- Face book and twitter are very useful if used sensibly.
- An educated person is identified by his good manners.
- We should eat to live, not live to eat.
Q. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful sentences:
- Number one/ is/ eradicate/ to/ poverty/ Millennium development/goal/of/the.
- Knowledge/ to/ everyone/ has/ share/ learn to/ and/ can/ others/ inspire/ anyone.
- we/ make/ life/ it/ is/ what
- the book/ out of/ print/ is/ you/ mentioned/ which
- till/ you/ come/ wait/ here/ shall/ I
- lest/ miss/ the/ train/ you should/ walk fast
- where/ gone wrong/ we have/ understand/ I/don’t
- Sarla/ does/ know/ the guest/ are /arriving/ when?
- he goes/ wherever/ will find/ the police/ him.
- do not hurry,/ miss the train/ you will/ if you
Answer
- The number one goal of Millennium development is to eradicate poverty.
- Everyone has to learn to share knowledge and anyone can inspire others.
- Life is what we make it.
- The book which you mentioned is out of print.
- I shall wait here till you come.
- Walk fast lest you should miss the train.
- I don’t understand where we have gone wrong.
- Does Sarla know when the guests are arriving?
- Wherever he goes the police will find him.
- If you do not hurry, you will miss the train.
Q. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful sentences:
- you/ fail/ will/ your time/ waste/ if you
- not/ pass/ you will/ work hard/ you/ unless
- the girl/ is weeping/ doll/ whose/ lost/ has been
- the thief/ as soon as/ ran away/ he/ the police/ saw
- Sonu ran/ when the postman/ at the door,/ knocked/ to answer it
- which/ your friend/ told us/ the story/ we all enjoyed
- staged the play/ have you/ from me/ that/ you borrowed
- how/ I am going/ the money/ to get/ know/ I don’t
- is my friend/ the boy,/ in an accident/ died/ whose father
- I bought yesterday/ the book/ which/ is lost
Answer
- You will fail if you waste your time.
- You will not pass unless you work hard.
- The girl, whose doll has been lost, is weeping.
- As soon as the police saw the thief, he ran away.
- When the postman knocked at the door, Sonu ran to answer it.
- We all enjoyed the story which your friend told us.
- Have you staged the play that you borrowed from me?
- I don’t know how I am going to get the money.
- The boy, whose father died in an accident, is my friend.
- The book which I bought yesterday is lost.
Q. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make meaningful sentences:
- doesn’t/ he/ dare/ his/ master/ to disobey
- our neighbours/ to love/ we ought.
- see you again/ I must/ I leave/ for Agra/ before
- Raju said/ he/ that/ might/ abroad/ go /next year
- she/ hard/ works/ so that/ may pass/ she
- could/ we/ out/ whenever and wherever/ we wanted/ go
- I would/ build/ I win/ if/ a lottery/ a theatre
- lest we/ miss the train/ should/ a taxi/ we took
- will be/ flown/ flag/ the visiting/ Prime Minister/ in honour of
- her misdeeds/ for/ she/ shall/ punished/ be
Answer
- He doesn’t dare to disobey his master.
- We ought to love our neighbours.
- I must see you again before I leave for Agra.
- Raju said that he might go abroad next year.
- She works hard so that she may pass.
- We could go out whenever and wherever we wanted.
- If I win a lottery I would build a theatre.
- We took a taxi lest we should miss the train.
- Flag will be flown in honour of the visiting Prime Minister.
- She shall be punished for her misdeeds.
