Jumbled Sentences: Fun Grammar Practice for Kids

Jumbled sentences are made up of a sequence of mismanaged or untied sentences that have been written in random order. Our job is to read and comprehend all of these sentences and then reassemble or rearrange them in a logical manner that makes sense.

Jumbled sentences are presented in the question format for students to arrange the sentence or rearrange the sentence. This is a very common way to learn how to form a correct sentence. In such questions, certain words that when combined rightly can translate to a meaningful sentence are presented in a disorderly way. 

Jumbled Sentences Examples

Students should  comprehend the possibility of a meaningful sentence and answer the jumbled sentences. This can be presented in a paragraph form where multiple sentences are jumbled and one has to rearrange. Let us look at some English jumbled words with answers.

For example, the sentence can be

‘I am going to a birthday party today with my friend Meena.’

While the question presented can be in the following way,

birthday/today/friend/I/Meena/a/my/with/going/am/to/party.

The question can also be in a different form where the students will be presented with simple jumbled sentences with answers and they just have to rearrange them correctly. Let us look at an example.

Here are some other solved jumbled words examples.

Ans: Clock

Ans: Globe

Ans: Shoes

Ans: Tape

Rules to Solve Jumbled Sentences

One can answer such questions with ease, if they have the knowledge of certain rules to form a sentence with jumbled words, which are as follows:

• Try to figure out what the theme of the paragraph or sentence is. This can be accomplished by looking for words that appear frequently throughout the sentence.

• Other relative pronouns like who, whom, that, what, and which, and indefinite pronouns like everybody, anybody, no one, nobody, both, one, some, other none can be the first word in a sentence.

• If there are articles like ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’ at the beginning of a sentence, most of the time they are placed at the starting of the paragraph.

Now with awareness of certain rules on how to answer, let's see a jumble words example. These jumbled sentences with answers will help you have a better understanding.

Jumbled Sentences with Answers:

1. Rearrange and write the correct sentences.

• Time/wait/none/tide/for/and.

• Weather/what/for/the/forecast/is/tomorrow/for.

• Anika/friends/I/childhood/and/are.

2. Unscramble the words and form a correct sentence.

3. Put the following sentences in a logical and coherent order.

1. Initially, it did start with a rumour. 

2. Adish and Tara kept denying it.

3. Even though the entire nation was talking about it.

4. Finally, the announcement of the new film was made.

Options 

1. ABCD

2. ACBD

3. BACD

4. CABD

4. Write the following correctly:

50 Jumbled Words with Answers

1. a/p/l/e – apple

1. b/t/e/o/t/l – bottle

2. o/d/r – door

3. n/e/p – pen

4. t/a/b/e/l – table

5. s/h/c/o/o/l – school

6. h/a/i/r/c – chair

7. n/i/a/r – rain

8. a/r/t/s – star

9. d/i/f/e/n/r – friend

10. w/t/e/a/r – water

11. s/u/n – sun

12. l/b/a/l – ball

13. t/e/r/e – tree

14. o/b/o/k – book

15. c/a/t – cat

16. g/d/o – dog

17. h/s/i/f – fish

18. d/i/b/r – bird

19. l/f/o/w/e/r – flower

20. m/u/o/n/t/a/i/n – mountain

21. l/d/o/c/u – cloud

22. n/e/e/r/g – green

23. y/l/l/w/e/o – yellow

24. d/e/r – red

25. a/r/c – car

26. s/u/b – bus

27. r/i/n/t/a – train

28. c/m/o/t/e/r/u – computer

29. n/o/h/e/p – phone

30. k/e/y – key

31. o/l/c/k – lock

32. e/h/o/s – shoe

33. t/r/i/s/h – shirt

34. t/a/c/k/e/j – jacket

35. t/a/h – hat

36. g/l/o/v/e – glove

37. w/c/t/a/h – watch

38. e/l/g/u – glue

39. r/e/p/p/a – paper

40. l/n/e/i/p/c – pencil

41. r/s/e/a/r/e – eraser

42. o/k/o/b – book

43. k/c/a/b – back

44. d/i/f/e/n/r – friend

45. s/m/u/c/i – music

46. y/p/a/l – play

47. g/a/e/m – game

48. c/d/a/n/e – dance

49. l/h/u/a/g – laugh

50. p/a/h/y/p - happy

10 Rules to Arrange Jumbled Sentences

1. Names go first: If a sentence starts with someone's name, it is usually the first sentence of that part.

2. Look for time markers: If a sentence starts with words like "first," "then," or "next," it’s likely to be one of the first sentences in the passage.

3. Look for main points: Try to identify the key ideas in the sentences. Words that appear often in different sentences can help you find the main idea.

4. Sentences starting with "A," "An," or "The": Sentences beginning with "A" should come first. Sentences starting with "An" or "The" will follow the ones that start with "A."

5. Watch out for pronouns: If a sentence starts with a pronoun (like "he," "she," or "they") and not "you" or "I," it probably is not the first sentence.

6. Repeated words help: If a word keeps showing up in many sentences, those sentences might go together in one part of the paragraph.

7. Sentences starting with words like "these," "that," or "consequently" are not first: These types of sentences usually come after others, not at the beginning.

8. Words like "So," "Presently," or "However": Sentences starting with these words usually come after other sentences and explain something further.

9. Sentence types matter: If there are simple, complex, and compound sentences in the passage, they should be arranged in a logical order.

10. Words like "eventually" or "therefore": Sentences starting with these words usually come at the end of the passage because they are giving a conclusion or result.