Click to enlargeShuffled Sentences 3
Two-clause sentences where the extra word is a decoy that almost fits.
- 20 tests in the book
- Graded from accessible to exam standard
- Full answer key, independently re-checked question by question
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How this book is used in our course
English books are worked in short daily sessions rather than one long sitting. For vocabulary, the child covers the meaning, says it aloud, then checks; words that are missed go on a card for the week. For comprehension and cloze, the child attempts the passage under a loose time, then marks against the key and rewrites any answer that lost marks.
Where it sits in the series
- Previous book in the series: Book 26, Inference Comprehension 2
- This is the last book in the series.
What's inside English Mastery 27
Four real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 8 sample pages are in the viewer.
Twenty tests in ten levels, and now the sentences have two clauses.
Shuffled Sentences 2 gave nine or ten words. This book gives up to fifteen, built from a main clause and a second one starting with when, although, which or whose. The extra word is no longer just a wrong form; it is a decoy chosen because it almost fits. Every test is ten questions, and every answer comes with the full model sentence.
Six steps, and the seven decoys the exam uses, named one by one.
Read once, find the engine, hunt for twins, build in chunks, test the twin in the gap, check every word is used once. Below the method is a table of the decoys a child will meet: drank for drunk, affect for effect, silent for silently, principle for principal, raises for rises, less for fewer, than for to. Each comes with the sentence it breaks and the reason it fails.
Level 10: proof or proved, further or farther, calm or calmly, proceeds or proceed.
"Seldom have I seen such a spectacular display of fireworks": the verb before the subject, and saw left over. Fourteen and fifteen words, both twins real words, and only the built sentence shows which one stays. This is the standard of the hardest grammar and independent school papers.
Every answer gives the letter, the extra word and the whole model sentence.
"1. E (builds): The museum guide explained how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids." A child who chose wrongly reads the correct sentence at once and sees why their word had no place in it.
All 20 tests in the book follow the pattern shown here.
Other Year 4 & 5 books in English Mastery
English Rules 1 Testbook
Quizzes, tests and scorecards for every rule in English Rules 1.
Cloze Sentences 1
Fill-the-gap sentences that teach a child to read for sense, not just for words.
Shuffled Sentences 1
Rebuild scrambled sentences and spot the word that does not belong.
Comprehension 1
Retrieval and basic skills on fiction, poetry and non-fiction passages.