To be a sentence, there must be a verb e.g. go, stop. Before and after verb, there can be added different parts of speech. e.g. – noun, pronoun, adjective, article, adverb, auxiliary verb, preposition, connective

He was studying English for four years.
S +AUX+V₅ +O + PREP+ADJ + N.

Where was he going?
Wh-word + aux + s+ V4?

In this way putting other parts of speech, to the either side of verb, a sentence is constructed. All the parts of speech have their certain place so when we reconstruct a sentence from jumbled words, we have to put them in their right place as illustrated above. Let’s learn from the example.

Examples:

1. Put the words below in to correct order to make sensible sentences.
(a) years/she/ English/four/was/for/compulsory/studying.
(b) official/he/a/to/wanted/government/become.
(c) a/she/hospital/in/doctor/become/given/a/to.
(d) of/he/tea/her/him/cup /asked/give/a/to.
(e) his/he/to/had/dinner/started/just/eat.

Answers:
(a) He was studying compulsory English for four years.
(b) He wanted to become a doctor in a hospital.
(c) She hoped to become a doctor in a hospital.
(d) He asked her to give him a cup of tea.
(e) He had just started to eat his dinner.

2. Put the words below into correct order to make sensible sentences.
(a) like/as/you/long/stay/as/can/you.
(b) if/i/paid/you/debt/would/be/well.
(c) being/are/the/looked/them/by/children/after.
(d) cars/both/to/decided/we/the/sell.
(e) i/while/having/news/the/breakfast/was/heard

Answers:
(a) You can stay as long as you like.
(b) If you paid the debt, I would be well.
(c) The children are being looked after by them.
(d) We decided to sell both cars.
(e) I heard the news while I was having breakfast.

Exercises:

1. Put the following words in the correct order to make suitable sentence.
(a) wearing/she/a/be/dress/will/white.
(b) english/he/a/to/wanted/teacher/be/of.
(c) cricket/they/found/playing/of/are.

2. Put the following words in the correct order to make suitable sentences.
(a) does/her/have/what/she/hand/in?
(b) what/do/she/not/have/I/wants.
(c) of/he/tea/her/him/cup/asked/give/a/to.

3. Put the following words in correct order in order to make sensible sentences:
(a) his/he/to/had/dinner/started/just/eat.
(b) of/he/tea/her/him/cup/asked/give/a/to.
(c) a/she/hospital/hoped/in/doctor/become/to.