Question

: Rearrange the following words and phrases to form meaningful sentences:
1)money / out of his hand / snatched / the / was.
2)It / a / garden / was / lovely / large / and.

Answer 1

Hint: English follows the word order of Subject – Verb – Object. A subject is the doer of the verb and also the first focus of the sentence. An article always precedes the noun.

Complete step-by-step answer:

Keeping in mind the hint that has been given to us we shall proceed with arranging the phrase (i)
The money was snatched out of his hand.
This is the correct rearrangement of the phrase given to us as we observe that the correct word order of English is being followed where, ‘money’ is the subject, ‘snatched’ is the verb and the ‘hand’ is the object. We also observe that the article precedes the noun ‘money’.
Now we shall proceed with arranging the phrase (ii) keeping in mind the hint that has been given to us.
It was a large and lovely garden.
The same sentence can also be rearranged as: It was a lovely and large garden.
 This is the correct rearrangement of the phrase given to us as we observe that the correct word order of English is being followed where it is the subject and garden if the object. The article ‘a’ precedes the noun ‘garden’. The adjectives can be put in any order that is ‘large’ can come before ‘lovely’ and vice versa without any change in the meaning of the sentence.


Note: Only an adjective can be placed between an article and a noun, unless, there is an adverb describing the adjective. It is also to be noted that the articles are used for the noun and not the word categories falling in between the particular noun and the article.