Writing Exercise. Sentence Scramble.                                                   NAME:____________________________
Rearrange the pieces into complete sentences. Many of them will go together more than one way. Punctuation and spelling count.
DO NOT ADD OR SUBTRACT ANY WORDS!
  1. a) Jennifer flipped   b) yelling   c) onto the floor   d) her strained spinach    e) at the baby-sitter

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  2. a) the light socket  b) grabbing   c) crazy Chester   d) the cat’s tail   e) headed for

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  3. a) Norman stubbed   b) a huge vat   c) his toe   d) of Jello   e) jumping into

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  4.  a) the roast pig   b) immediately stick   c) when   d) an apple   e) is finished   f) in its mouth

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  5. a) a wilder, heartier interest   b) if she had built   c) the boy could not   d) a fire   e) have shown   f) under him

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  6. a) how I tried   b) they all laughed   c) to clear   d) and totally bombed   e) four trash cans   f) when I told them

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  7. a) like cats   b) in an instant   c) were rolling   d) both boys   e) and tumbling   f) gripping each other   g) in the dirt

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  8. a) looked up from his scrambled eggs   b) once upon a sunny morning   c) who sat in a breakfast nook   d) quietly nibbling the roses   e) with a gold horn   f) a man   g) to see a white unicorn   h) in the garden




  9. a) over long woolen underwear   b) he bounded   c) out of bed   d)  and a leather jacket   e) wearing a long flannel nightgown    f) a nightcap



  10. a) all the time   b) the beauty queen   c) smiling   d) finally gave   e) at everybody   f) lockjaw