VEPT Sentence Building from Fragments 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Rearrange the fragments to form a correct sentence: 'every morning / she / exercises / at the gym'
- She exercises at the gym every morning. (Correct answer)
- Every morning she at the gym exercises.
- At the gym exercises she every morning.
- She every morning the gym exercises at.
Correct answer: She exercises at the gym every morning.
The correct order places subject before verb and adverbial phrases at the start or end.
Question 2: Which arrangement correctly uses the fragments: 'quickly / the students / left / the classroom'?
- The students left quickly the classroom.
- The students quickly left the classroom. (Correct answer)
- Quickly the classroom the students left.
- Left quickly the students the classroom.
Correct answer: The students quickly left the classroom.
Adverbs like 'quickly' typically follow the subject and precede the main verb.
Question 3: Form a sentence from: 'have / we / for two years / lived here'
- We have lived here for two years. (Correct answer)
- We lived here have for two years.
- For two years we lived here have.
- Have we lived for two years here.
Correct answer: We have lived here for two years.
Present perfect requires 'have/has + past participle,' with the time phrase at the end.
Question 4: Which sentence is correctly built from: 'the package / by tomorrow / will be delivered'?
- By tomorrow will the package be delivered.
- The package will be delivered by tomorrow. (Correct answer)
- Will be delivered the package by tomorrow.
- The package by tomorrow delivered will be.
Correct answer: The package will be delivered by tomorrow.
Passive future tense follows: subject + will be + past participle + time phrase.
Question 5: Rearrange: 'are / the roads / because of the rain / slippery'
- Because of the rain are the roads slippery.
- The roads slippery are because of the rain.
- The roads are slippery because of the rain. (Correct answer)
- Are slippery the roads because of the rain.
Correct answer: The roads are slippery because of the rain.
The linking verb 'are' connects the subject 'the roads' with the adjective 'slippery,' and the reason clause follows.
Question 6: Form a sentence from: 'called / nobody / when / I arrived'
- Nobody called when I arrived. (Correct answer)
- When nobody I arrived called.
- Nobody when arrived I called.
- Called nobody when I arrived.
Correct answer: Nobody called when I arrived.
The main clause 'nobody called' precedes the subordinate time clause 'when I arrived.'
Question 7: Which correctly arranges: 'a letter / to her friend / she / wrote'?
- To her friend she a letter wrote.
- She wrote a letter to her friend. (Correct answer)
- She to her friend wrote a letter.
- A letter wrote she to her friend.
Correct answer: She wrote a letter to her friend.
Standard word order: subject + verb + direct object + indirect object phrase.
VEPT Sentence Building from Fragments 2
Rearrange the fragments to form a correct sentence: 'every morning / she / exercises / at the gym'