Jumbled sentences is one of the major topics in many competitive exams like jumbled words, analogies, synonyms and antonyms, ordering of sentences, idioms and phrases, reading comprehension and so on. Therefore, it is very important from the younger age to understand the concept of rearranging jumbled sentences.
In this article you will learn about the following.
What are jumbled sentences?
How to structure jumbled sentences?
Tips to solve jumbled sentences
List of jumbled sentences examples with answers
Jumbled sentences exercises
What are jumbled sentences?
going the are park to we.
Do you have any clue about what the above jumbled sentence says? If you couldn’t understand anything at first glance, don’t worry about it.
Jumbled sentences are composed of a series of words that have not been written in the correct order so that it cannot make a meaningful sentence. Hence you need to crack the original sentence in a logical manner to make it meaningful.
How to structure jumbled sentences?
Now let’s try to rearrange the above jumbled sentence. To do that you have to read and try to comprehend the jumbled sentence and rearrange the words in an understandable manner that makes sense.
going the are park to we.
Look at the words in this jumbled sentence and try to figure out what it is trying to make sense about.
Now look at the nouns, pronouns, verbs, articles and prepositions included in the jumbled sentence.
Usually, we see nouns, proper nouns, pronouns (I, he, she, it, they etc.), relative pronouns (who, whom, which, whose etc.), demonstrative pronouns (this, that, these, those etc.), verbs, gerunds, prepositions, adverbs, articles (a, an, the) and transitional words (finally, lastly, next, furthermore etc.) in the beginning of a sentence. If the sentence is a question, it starts with an auxiliary verb (am, is, are, was, were etc.), which we also call a helping verb. Therefore, comprehending a long jumbled sentence can be tricky.
Try to understand while reading through the jumbled sentence what should come first. In this case it is the pronoun ‘we’, because if we pick any other word as the first word it is difficult to make a complete meaningful sentence, unless it is a question type sentence.
going the are park to we.
Now look at the remaining words. We have a verb ending with ‘-ing’ form which means we need the help of an auxiliary verb (helping verb) in order to connect it with the pronoun.
Since the pronoun is ‘we’ the auxiliary verb that goes with it is ‘are’. So, now we are able to form a part of the sentence, which is ‘We are going’. (Remember to capitalize the first letter of the first word and other proper nouns if there’s any.)
Now it is easy to rearrange the rest of the letters ’the’, ‘park’, ‘to’. To make the sentence understandable you need the preposition next. Then the article along with the noun makes the next part of the sentence ‘to the park’.
Finally, we have rearranged the words correctly to make a meaningful sentence.
We are going + to the park
We are going to the park.
There is also a second sentence that we can rearrange with this jumbled sentence. However, it is a question type sentence, which is;
Are we going to the park?
If it is a question type jumbled sentence, usually there should be a question mark instead of a full stop, but on some occasions punctuation mark is not given at the end of the sentence.
Tips to rearrange jumbled sentences
Since jumbled sentence questions are relatively simple and easy to answer in exams, arming yourself with quick tips and shortcuts can be extremely beneficial in terms of saving time. Remember the following simple tricks that you can use to efficiently rearrange jumbled sentences:
Read the jumbled sentence thoroughly and try to comprehend the concept or what it is talking about.
Identify the nouns, pronouns, relative and demonstrative pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, articles, prepositions, gerunds, auxiliary verbs, transitional words etc. in the jumbled sentence. For example, words like transitional words represent the transition from one idea to another in a sentence and can thus assist you in determining the appropriate order.
Find the tense of the sentence.
Put the words grammatically in correct order.
Rearrange as many jumbled sentences as you can to practise pattern recognition. Practice makes you perfect so that you will be able to rearrange even the most difficult jumbled sentence in less time.
List of jumbled sentences examples with answers
Here is a list of jumbled sentences examples with their answers:
There hole is my a in pocket.
Ans. - There is a hole in my pocket.
soup is warm The.
Ans. - The soup is warm.
legs eight A has spider.
Ans. - A spider has eight legs.
six insect has An legs.
Ans. - An insect has six legs.
morning up Shane early got this.
Ans. - Shane got up early this morning.
6. well looks pale eat Julia doesn’t very and.
Ans. - Julia doesn’t eat well and looks very pale.
7. France wanted before visiting French learn Jessica to.
Ans. - Jessica wanted to learn French before visiting France.
8. is city This densely populated.
Ans. - This city is densely populated.
9. of a fruit table There bowl the on is.
Ans. - There is a bowl of fruit on the table.
10. nothing for laughs Rita always.
Ans. - Rita always laughs for nothing.
Jumbled sentences exercises
Rearrange the following jumbled sentences.
my iron I daily cloths.
Reuben's at tastes the good food.
the two in sneeze fat boys my class loudly.
my when go hometown I meet to friends I my old.
lunch my Debbie always snatches.
high children Mandarin to Eujin teaches school.
flowers at sells girl the the Corner next door shop.
break piano lunch plays Sienna the the in.
every tennis afternoon they play.
the goes the moon earth around.
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