Sentence Building from Fragments Flashcards

Rearrange: 'had / the meeting / already / started / when we arrived'

Answer: Both A and B are correct.

Both sentence positions for the 'when' clause are grammatically correct in past perfect sentences.

Form a sentence from: 'it / been / if / I / would have called / had known'

Answer: If I had known, I would have called.

Third conditional: 'If + had + past participle, would + have + past participle.'

Which sentence correctly builds from: 'only / she / realized / later / her mistake'?

Answer: Only later did she realize her mistake.

Fronting 'only later' triggers subject-auxiliary inversion: 'did she realize.'

Rearrange: 'is / how / he / nobody / knows / feeling'

Answer: Nobody knows how he is feeling.

Embedded questions use declarative word order: 'how he is feeling,' not inverted.

Form a sentence from: 'used to / he / walk / to work / every day'

Answer: He used to walk to work every day.

'Used to + base verb' expresses past habits; the time adverb follows the verb phrase.

Which arrangement is correct for: 'such / it was / that everyone left / a boring lecture'?

Answer: It was such a boring lecture that everyone left.

'Such + a/an + adjective + noun + that' is the standard intensifying structure.

Rearrange: 'the book / on the shelf / having read / she placed'

Answer: Having read the book, she placed it on the shelf.

A perfect participle clause 'Having read the book' precedes the main clause to show completed prior action.