Sentence Building Worksheets: Put the Words in Order

How this list was compiled: Written by hand for this page on 2026-10-01: 180 sentences in three levels of 60 (3 or 4 words; 5 or 6 words; 7 words or more with a joining word such as and, but, so, because, when, if, until, before, after or while). Each is stored in order for the answer key and printed with its words mixed up by a script, which never leaves the first word first or prints the sentence as written. The word with the capital letter is the first word and the word with the end mark is the last: no sentence has a name or a second capital in the middle, except the word I in sentences that begin with I. A script listed, for every sentence, each other order worth reading: two nouns, two verbs, two describing words, two pronouns or two of the small words a, the, my and their like that could change places, a describing word or one of those small words that could move in front of another noun, and an adverb that could move. Each listed order was read on 2026-10-01, and a sentence was rewritten where another order also made a sensible sentence (A spider spun a big web could also be built as A big spider spun a web). An order that is grammatical but makes no sense (The boy purred while the cat petted it) was left. Where but or so joins two parts that could each stand as a sentence, a comma comes before it, the practice many style guides ask for as described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma, read on 2026-10-01. Many crabs run sideways follows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab, read on 2026-10-01. No sentence is repeated word for word from another list on this site or its sister sites, checked by script on 2026-10-01 against every line of every list; short everyday sentences still share words with lines elsewhere. No person, brand or character is named. Licence: own work