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Class XI – English Language – Sentence Reordering

1. Rearrange the following jumbled words to make meaningful sentences.

(i) acquire /do / kind / we/ what / of / woods / goods/ the / from

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Ans. What kind of goods do we acquire from the woods?


(ii) by / were / farmers / the / exploited / Indian / English / the

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Ans. The Indian farmers were exploited by the English.


(iii) exorbitant / farmers / taxes / poor / pay / were / to / forced / the

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Ans. The poor farmers were forced to pay exorbitant taxes.


(iv) believed in / people of India / the sacredness of / have traditionally / wildlife.

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Ans. People of India have traditionally believed in the sacredness of wildlife.


2. Rearrange the following jumbled words to make meaningful sentences.

(i) a / strong / has / animal / affinity / he / with

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Ans. He has a strong affinity with animals.


(ii) advocated /release / birds / he / caged / the / for / of

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Ans. He advocated for the release of caged birds.


(iii) to / be / her / Sudha / the / hard / class / is / working / in / order / best

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Ans. Sudha is working hard in order to be the best in her class.


(iv) the train / how / they / we wondered / would / get / on.

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Ans. We wondered how they would get on the train


3. Rearrange the following jumbled words to make meaningful sentences.

(i) during / forests / forces / provide cover for / battles / our

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Ans. During battles, forests provide cover for our forces


(ii) age / to / the / under / of / Children / are not permitted / eighteen / drive

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Ans. Children under the age of eighteen are not permitted to drive.


(iii) the / their room / are / boys / lesson / reviewing / the / in

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Ans. In their room, the boys are reviewing the lesson


(iv) vendors / carrying / were at / sweet smelling / flowers / the / platform.

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Ans. Vendors carrying sweet smelling flowers were at the platform


4. Rearrange the following jumbled words to make meaningful sentences.

(i) last / was / the railway / Sunday / particularly / platform / busy

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Ans. Last Sunday, the railway platform was particularly busy.


(ii) on the platform / vendors with / were / wares / their / selling / flowers / sweet-smelling / the

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Ans. The vendors with sweet-smelling flowers were selling their wares on the platform.


(iii) board / were unsure how they / the / We / would / train

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Ans. We were unsure how they would board the train.


(iv) age / of / at / five / a / years / child / not / much / does / understand

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Ans. At five years of age, a child does not understand much.


5. Rearrange the following jumbled words to make meaningful sentences.

(i) Number / one / is / eradicate / to / poverty / millennium / development/ goal / of / the

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Ans. The number one goal of Millennium development is to eradicate poverty.


(ii) knowledge / to / everyone / has / share / learn to / and / can / others / inspire / anyone

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Ans. Everyone has to learn to share knowledge and anyone can inspire others.


(iii) we / make / life / it / is / what

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Ans. Life is what we make it.


(iv) factors / and / pollution / herbs / native / important / the / responsible / are / loss / shrubs / of / and

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Ans. The important factors responsible are pollution and loss of native herbs and shrubs.


6. Rearrange the following jumbled words to make meaningful sentences.

(i) been / Ambassador / has / Tendulkar / named as the Rio Olympics’ Board/ Sachin

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Ans. Sachin Tendulkar has been named as the Rio Olympics’ Brand Ambassador.


(ii) to / Taplow / being encouraged by / against / Frank / speak out / was / Crocker

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Ans. Taplow was being encouraged by Frank to speak out against Crocker.


(iii) Poet began / her / an / miss / viewing / after / mother / to / image / of her

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Ans. Poet began to miss her mother after viewing an image of her.


(iv) the / sparrow / from / city / it / disappeared / house / has / seems / common / the / that

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Ans. It seems that the common house sparrow has disappeared from the city.


7. Rearrange the following jumbled words to make meaningful sentences.

(i) the / sparrow / from / city / it / disappeared / house / has / seems / common / the / that

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Ans. It seems that the common house sparrow has disappeared from the city


(ii) factors / and / pollution / herbs / native / important / the / responsible / are / loss / shrubs / of / and

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Ans. The important factors responsible are pollution and loss of native herbs and shrubs.


(iii) to / the popularity / every corner / junk food / has led / of eating / joints / around / of / the / opening

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Ans. The popularity of junk food has led to the opening of eating joints around every corner.


(iv) where / a / for / and / reading / are / a library / stored / place / books / is / kept

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Ans. A library is a place where books are kept and stored for reading.


8. Rearrange the following jumbled words to make meaningful sentences.

(i) believed in / people of India / the sacredness of / have traditionally / wildlife

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Ans. People of India have traditionally believed in the sacredness of wildlife


(ii) architecture / I would / like to / books / on / look at / indian / the

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Ans. I would like to cook at the books on Indian architecture.


(iii) than / no / mist / sooner / did / the / the disappeared / sun / rise

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Ans. No sooner did the sun rise, than the mist disappeared.


(iv) knead / well and / keep / with / it / in / water / the / fridge / after / this / for / one / warm / hour.

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Ans. Knead it well with warm water and after this keep in the fridge for one hour.