VEPT Sentence Building from Fragments 5

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Both A and B are correct.

Answer

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'

Accepted Answer

If I had known, I would have called.

Answer

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

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Only later did she realize her mistake.

Answer

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

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Nobody knows how he is feeling.

Answer

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'

Accepted Answer

He used to walk to work every day.

Answer

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

VEPT - Versant English Placement Test Practice Test