Sentence Reordering and Dialogue Completion
What this domain tests
This section checks whether you can build English word order and follow a conversation. Sentence-reordering items give scrambled words or phrases and ask you to place them correctly. Dialogue-completion items ask for the response that fits the flow of a short exchange. Both test grammar and discourse logic rather than isolated vocabulary.
Core rules
- Build the skeleton first: subject + verb + object, then add place and time. English order is different from Japanese order, so do not translate chunk by chunk.
- Look for fixed phrases. 'Would you like to...?', 'How about...?', 'Thank you for...', and 'I am looking forward to...' lock in the order around them.
- Use pronoun reference. If the previous sentence mentions 'the book', the next sentence may start with 'It'.
- In dialogues, answer the function. An invitation needs acceptance or refusal; an apology needs a response; a request needs action or permission.
Worked example
Reorder: This is the book ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ). Words: I / bought / in / Aomori.
Reasoning: the sentence already has 'This is the book'. The missing part is a relative clause with the relative pronoun omitted: 'I bought [it] in Aomori'. English order is subject 'I', verb 'bought', then place 'in Aomori'. The answer is 'I bought in Aomori'. The Japanese-style order 'I in Aomori bought' is wrong.
Dialogue example: A: 'Would you like to join us for lunch?' B: ( ) Correct: 'Yes, I'd love to.' Reasoning: 'Would you like to...?' is an invitation, so the natural response is acceptance, not a literal statement about liking lunch.
Traps
- Translating Japanese order directly into English.
- Forgetting the auxiliary in questions: 'Where did you go?' not 'Where you went?'
- Choosing a polite response that does not answer the question.
- Separating a fixed phrase such as 'look forward to' or 'take care of'.
Exam habit
After reordering, read the full sentence and check subject-verb agreement and punctuation.