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Jumbled Sentences

In this exercise, proper sentences are divided into phrases. These phrases are jumbled. The student is expected to look at the jumbled phrases comprehend the meaning implied and put the sentence in order.
Example:

• She was/of her youth/at that time/in the prime
  Identify the subject:
  She was
  Identify the action:
  In the prime of her youth
  Make the sentence:
  She was in the prime of her youth at that time.

Practice Examples

Q.1. Arrangement the words in the correct order to form meaningful sentences:

(i) She / interested / that/ was / in / proposal / said / she / the 

She said that she was interested in the proposal.

(ii) was / Performance /impressed /with/ quite / his/I. 

I was quite impressed with his performance.

(iii) the / please / not /do / on / grass / step. 

Please do not step on the grass.

(iv) at /top/voice/ the man/his/ of/ demanded / the / admission / shouting. 

Shouting at the top of his voice, the man demanded admission.

(v) you / where have / this all / while / been/ ? 

Where have you been all this while?

(vi) should / you/ have / coming / seen / this. 

You should have seen this coming.

(vii) effect / we/in/did / much / sales / last / not / year /improvement.

we did not effect much improvement in sales last year.

Q.2. Rearrange the word for meaningful sentences:

(i) Peacock / a / beautiful /is/a/bird 

A peacock is a beautiful bird.

(ii) neck / feathers / covered /is/ lovely / its / with 

Its neck is covered with lovely feathers.

(iii) green / blue /its/ and / body / is 

Its body is green and blue.

(iv) glory/its /tail / long /is/its 

Its glory is its tail.

(v) it / national / our /is / bird.

It is our national bird.