Shuffled Sentences

In this lesson, you will learn how to solve shuffled sentence questions. In these questions, the words of a sentence have been mixed up, and you must work out the correct order to form a sentence that makes sense. This is a question type that appears regularly in CEM 11+ exams.

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What Is a Shuffled Sentence Question?

You are given a set of words in the wrong order. Your task is to rearrange them into a grammatically correct, meaningful sentence. You may then be asked to identify a specific word — for example, the first word, the last word, or the middle word of the correctly ordered sentence.

Example:

garden the in played children the

Rearranged: The children played in the garden.

If asked "What is the last word?" the answer would be garden.

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Why CEM Includes Shuffled Sentences

Shuffled sentences test several skills at once:

• Grammar — you must understand how English sentences are structured.
• Comprehension — you must create a sentence that makes sense.
• Speed — CEM exams are tightly timed, so you need quick strategies.