VEPT Sentence Building from Fragments 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Rearrange: 'had / the meeting / already / started / when we arrived'
- When we arrived the meeting had already started.
- The meeting had already started when we arrived.
- The meeting already had started when we arrived.
- Both A and B are correct. (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Both A and B are correct.
Both sentence positions for the 'when' clause are grammatically correct in past perfect sentences.
Question 2: Form a sentence from: 'it / been / if / I / would have called / had known'
- If I had known it, I would have called been.
- If I had known, I would have been called.
- I would have called if it had been known.
- If I had known, I would have called. (Correct answer)
Correct answer: If I had known, I would have called.
Third conditional: 'If + had + past participle, would + have + past participle.'
Question 3: Which sentence correctly builds from: 'only / she / realized / later / her mistake'?
- She only realized later her mistake.
- Only later did she realize her mistake. (Correct answer)
- Only she realized her mistake later.
- She realized only her mistake later.
Correct answer: Only later did she realize her mistake.
Fronting 'only later' triggers subject-auxiliary inversion: 'did she realize.'
Question 4: Rearrange: 'is / how / he / nobody / knows / feeling'
- Nobody knows how he is feeling. (Correct answer)
- Nobody how he is feeling knows.
- How he is feeling nobody knows.
- He is feeling nobody knows how.
Correct answer: Nobody knows how he is feeling.
Embedded questions use declarative word order: 'how he is feeling,' not inverted.
Question 5: Form a sentence from: 'used to / he / walk / to work / every day'
- He used to every day walk to work.
- Every day he to work used to walk.
- He used to walk to work every day. (Correct answer)
- He walked used to work every day.
Correct answer: He used to walk to work every day.
'Used to + base verb' expresses past habits; the time adverb follows the verb phrase.
Question 6: Which arrangement is correct for: 'such / it was / that everyone left / a boring lecture'?
- It was such a boring lecture that everyone left. (Correct answer)
- Such a boring lecture it was that everyone left.
- It was a boring such lecture that everyone left.
- That everyone left it was such a boring lecture.
Correct answer: It was such a boring lecture that everyone left.
'Such + a/an + adjective + noun + that' is the standard intensifying structure.
Question 7: Rearrange: 'the book / on the shelf / having read / she placed'
- Having read the book, she placed it on the shelf. (Correct answer)
- She placed the book having read on the shelf.
- Having the book read, on the shelf she placed it.
- She having read placed the book on the shelf.
Correct 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.
VEPT Sentence Building from Fragments 5
Rearrange: 'had / the meeting / already / started / when we arrived'