Rearranging a sentence

As the phrase suggests, it asks the test-taker to re-setup sentences significantly. While acting for aggressive assessments in addition to authorities’ assessments, you’ll encounter such questions that require placing distinct sentences in a concise and coherent paragraph that makes sense. Often known as para jumbled sentences, there may be no precise subject matter for all of the sentence rearrangement and it could be on any subject matter.

Types of sentence rearrangement:

The basic first type of sentence rearrangement clutters 45 sentences and requires all applicants to rearrange them in the correct order. 

 In the second variant, the first sentence is fixed, and the other sentences should be placed so that the first sentence does not move and the entire paragraph is related. 

 This is another form of sentence rearrangement that has a fixed sentence and logically rearranges the rest of the sentence so that certain sentences do not move from their intended location in the paragraph. 

 The fourth variation is the second and third hybrid. In this variant, the first and last statements remain constant and the other statements need to be rearranged.

What is the trick of sentence rearrangement?

  • Read the messy text at least twice with proper concentration. This helps identify the topic of the paragraph and makes it easier to organize the text later. 
  • The first sentence can be constant, making it easy to see the order of the lines. If you don’t have the first sentence, you need to identify the first sentence. 
  • You can also choose a removal method by removing the wrong answer and choosing the correct answer from the rest of the sentence. 
  • It is always advisable to connect one statement to another. Connecting dots makes it easy to resolve sentence rearrangements.

Sentence rearrangement worksheet

Directions: The following question gives a sentence that is split into four parts, so the parts are confused and do not make a meaningful sentence. Sort the following parts to create a grammatically correct and meaningful sentence, then choose the correct sort from the options below each question.

  1. A) Scientists have made a breakthrough.
  2. B) This might open the way for long-term solutions to cleanup oil spills
  3. C) A new species of oil-eating bacteria has been discovered in the
  4. D) Mariana trench, the deepest portion of the seas, a finding

Options:

  • C D B A
  • B C D A
  • A C D B
  • A D C B
  • D C B A

Answer: c) A C D B

  1. A) concept used when
  1. B)  philosophy of technology
  2. C) technological somnambulism is a
  3. D) talking about the

Options:

  • C A D B
  • A B C D
  • B C D A
  • A D C B
  • C A B D

Answer: a) C A D B

After rearranging the following sentence into a coherent paragraph, answer the following questions to identify the sentence that does not fit the context of the paragraph. 

(A) There are certainly structural barriers (from both India and its neighbours) to promoting regional integration, but the most significant handicap is the ideological aversion to New Delhi’s neighbours. It’s a feeling. 

(B) Unfortunately, our people, who value religious freedom, were once too often disillusioned with multiple governments. 

(C) Successive governments have seen neighbourhoods as a nuisance and a challenge, not an opportunity.  

(D) If South Asia is one of the least integrated regions in the world, India is one of the least locally integrated regions in the world. 

(E) Today, we are dealing, impatient, and narrowed with our neighbours, resulting in limited mobility in the geopolitical planning of the region. 

 (F) Indian politics rarely show a sense of belonging to the region or a desire to work with neighbours for greater integration and cooperation. 

Consider Statement (D): “If South Asia is one of the most unintegrated regions in the world, India is one of the most unintegrated powers in the world.” Post-reorganization paragraph as the first statement of, is the next pair relevant? 

  1. A – C
  2. D – C
  3. C – E
  4. D – F
  5. A – F

Answer: a) A – C

Sentence rearrangement in the correct order

The best approach is to identify the connections between sentences and form a coherent paragraph. To determine the link, you need to identify the keyword. One of the most effective ways is to identify the introductory sentence and proceed to the linked sentence. Below are some points to help you identify the linked sentence. 

  • Pronoun: In general, paragraph clutter first refers to nouns and then to pronouns. Therefore, all you have to do is select a sentence that can be associated with a noun and a pronoun. 
  • Part of speech: You can use parts of speech such as adjectives, pronouns, and conjunctions to find connections between sentences. See 
  • Time evaluation: An event with a time limit exists in the statement. It can be a time series of statements, a series of events or steps, and so on. You must start the event or start it before proceeding.
  • Always look for the introductory text. It can be a definition, an observation, a concept, a description of an event, and so on. 
  •  Commonly used conjunctions that can be observed include cause and effect, idioms, phrases, statements, and assumptions. If a statement explains the cause, the next statement may continue to be affected. 
  • You can specify several connector words accordingly. So, if … then, therefore … hence, because with it … with it, even more, yes, beyond, more, not only … but also, but nevertheless, first, 2 Second etc. 
  •  Feel the tone of the passage. Example: Once upon a time … and then they lived happily, etc.

Conclusion:

Sentence rearrangement is a standard part of the English part of various state exams such as SSC, UPSC, IBPS, and RPSC. This is one of the most important and highest-scoring subjects that you can easily face in a competitive exam. Sentence rearrangement is a group of conceptual words used as a unit of rearrangement. For candidates looking for sentence relocation questions, practice is necessary to solve sentence relocation questions and answers.