Tips And Tricks And Shortcuts For Sentence Formation

1. Spotting the Subject or the opening word:

• The first and foremost step in addressing such problems is to identify the opening word.
• For that one has to go through all the scattered words mentioned in the options, then try to get an overall idea behind the sentence, and if we get that, then it will become effortless to perform the remaining task.

2. Identify the object or the closing part of the sentence:

• The next step is to figure out the closing word of the sentence.
• Which again requires reading all the words that are mentioned in the options, and accordingly try to co-relate it with the subject/introductory word and the remaining other words hat will eventually form the sentence

3. Spotting the transition words or the linking words:

The next step is to identify the transition words which entail the shifting from one idea to another. Some of the frequently used transition words are:

4. Identifying the pronoun antecedents:

• The last step is to spot the pronouns used in the sentence. Here again, the pronouns can be categorized into three types, namely

1. Relative pronoun: Which consists of words like who, whom, whose, which.
2. Demonstrative pronoun: It mainly consists of words like this, that, these, those.
3. Personal pronoun: Personal pronoun consists of words like he, she, him, her, you, they, it.

After identifying these pronouns, scan all the options, and try to set a connection between all the words coherently and logically.

Note: The above tips are applicable in the case of complex or compound sentences.

1. It is not essential that each sentence must contain the transition words or the pronoun antecedents.
2. There might be many questions where we shall be asked to create a simple sentence. (This can be depicted easily by looking at the options)