Sentence Reordering and Transformation
What this domain tests
You arrange scrambled words or phrases into a correct English sentence and rewrite sentences while keeping the original meaning. Targets include word order, question forms, indirect questions, comparatives, passive voice, and reported speech. Transformation items usually name the structure to use, so read the instruction carefully.
Core rules
- Find the subject and main verb first; then place objects, complements, and adverbs.
- Use fixed patterns as anchors: It is … for … to …, too … to …, so … that …, not as … as ….
- In reordering, punctuation and capitalized words are clues; a question mark signals inversion or a question word.
- In transformation, change only the required structure and keep tense, person, and meaning.
- In reported speech, backshift the tense when the reporting verb is past.
Worked example
Reorder: book / is / this / very / interesting. Correct: This book is very interesting. Reasoning: This modifies book; is is the verb; very modifies the adjective interesting, so it must sit before it. Japanese order would put the verb last, but English declaratives follow subject–verb–complement.
Traps that cost marks
- Carrying Japanese word order into English with the verb at the end.
- Dropping articles or misplacing adverbs such as always.
- In transformations, changing the tense or adding information.
- Forgetting inversion after a question word or negative adverbial.