Name: Date:

Scrambled Sentences
The words in the sentences have been scrambled. On the lines provided below each sentence,
re-write the words of the sentence in the correct order.

1. struck six she went out to get supper, closing the door gently behind her.
When the kitchen clock

2. was an old wagon-seat. Under a white mulberry tree there

3. to walk in the roads or in the ploughed fields. The ground is frozen so hard
that it bruises the foot

4. water was deeper and flowed so slowly that it seemed to sleep in the sun.
Under the overhanging willows of the opposite bank there was an inlet
where the

5. for food. At night the coyotes roam the wintry waste, howling

6. puffy white clouds across the sky. A brisk wind had come up and was
driving

7. deep from Christmas until March. There had not been such snowstorms in
twenty years, and the path across the fields was drifted

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Scrambled Sentences
The words in the sentences have been scrambled. On the lines provided below each sentence,
re-write the words of the sentence in the correct order.

1. struck six she went out to get supper, closing the door gently behind her.
When the kitchen clock
When the kitchen clock struck six she went out to get supper, closing the
door gently behind her.
2. was an old wagon-seat. Under a white mulberry tree there
Under a white mulberry tree there was an old wagon-seat.

3. to walk in the roads or in the ploughed fields. The ground is frozen so hard
that it bruises the foot
The ground is frozen so hard that it bruises the foot to walk in the roads or
in the ploughed fields.
4. water was deeper and flowed so slowly that it seemed to sleep in the sun.
Under the overhanging willows of the opposite bank there was an inlet
where the
Under the overhanging willows of the opposite bank there was an inlet
where the water was deeper and flowed so slowly that it seemed to sleep
in the sun.
5. for food. At night the coyotes roam the wintry waste, howling
At night the coyotes roam the wintry waste, howling for food.

6. puffy white clouds across the sky. A brisk wind had come up and was
driving
A brisk wind had come up and was driving puffy white clouds across the
sky.
7. deep from Christmas until March. There had not been such snowstorms in
twenty years, and the path across the fields was drifted
There had not been such snowstorms in twenty years, and the path across
the fields was drifted deep from Christmas until March.