GRADE XI

SOME IMPORTANT TIPS TO REARRANGE THE

JUMBLED SENTENCES:
1). Try to find out the topic addressed by the paragraph. This can be done by looking for
the words that are repeated often in the given sentences.

2). If a particular word is repeated in more than one sentence then the sentences can be
placed one by one in the paragraph

3). If a sentence starts with a ‘name’ of a person, then that sentence will definitely be
the 1st sentence in the paragraph to be formed

4). If a sentence starts with pronouns other than ‘I’ and ‘You’, then that sentence will not be
the 1st sentence of the paragraph

5). The sentences starting with the words ‘That’, ‘These’, ‘Thus’ and ‘Those’, then those
sentences will not come 1st in the paragraph

6). If an article namely ‘a’, ‘an’ or ‘the’ is present at the starting of a sentence. Then the
chances of that sentence being the 1st in the arrangement are more.

7). If all the articles (a, an, the) are present as the starting words of different sentences
then they are arranged as follows

• The sentence starting with ‘A’ comes first

• The sentences starting with ‘An’ and ‘The’ will follow the sentence starting with
‘A’ according to their content
8). If there are 3-sentences starting with the words ‘But’, ‘So’ and ‘Now’ respectively. Then
those 3-sentences will be arranged in the following order

• 1=> sentence starting with ‘But’

• 2=> sentence starting with ‘So’
• 3=> sentence starting with ‘Now’
9). If the given set of sentences consists of simple, compound, and complex sentences they
are arranged in the following order
1=> simple sentence – a sentence that consists of basic elements like a subject, a verb,
and a completed thought

• For example,
• Arun waited for the bus.
2=> compound sentence – a sentence that consists of 2-independent clauses connected to
one another with a conjunction

• For example,
• Arun waited for the bus, but the bus was late.
3=> complex sentence – a sentence that consists of an independent clause and one or
more dependent clauses connected to it

For example,

• Arun realized that the bus was late while he waited at the bus stop. (Or)
• While he waited at the bus stop, Arun realized that the bus was late.
10). If a sentence starts with the words Hence, Finally or Therefore then that sentence
comes last in the arrangement.