Question

Arrange the given words to form a simple sentence:
usually, drink, tea, milk, The, without, English
a. The English tea usually drink.
b. The English drink tea without.
c. The English usually drink tea without milk.
d. English drink without.

Answer 1

Hint: We have to form a simple sentence out of the jumbled words. It must have a subject, verb, and object.

Complete step by step answer:
A simple sentence is a sentence that has just one clause in it. The clause must contain a subject and a predicate.
Example: Joe waited for the train.
Here, Joe is the subject or the noun and ‘waited’ is the verb.

- From the above given words, we have to identify the subject and the verb. ‘The English’ will be the subject of our simple sentence. The only verb mentioned here is ‘drink.’ That being the case, option c gives a simple sentence in the right form.

- Option a is incorrect as ‘drink’ should come after the subject. The subject-verb-object order of the sentence is wrong here.

- In option b we are given an incomplete sentence. The preposition ‘without’ is left alone without an object and therefore, it cannot be a simple sentence.

- Similarly, in option d too we are given an incomplete sentence. As the preposition ‘without’ deserves an object here too, this option is also proved incorrect.

Note: A simple sentence can become compound with the addition of another clause to it. The subject-verb-agreement should be well maintained in compound as well as complex sentences.