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Join the following ideas together to form a single sentence:
Your desk is untidy. I know your character.
Try to do this in at least two different ways. You can change anything you like so long as the underlying ideas remain the same. See if you can include one of more of these words:
Mess. Sort. Tell.
This exercise appeared in Exercises 12-13 (1933) by NL Clay.
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The words of the following sentence have been jumbled up; can you restore the original order, and add suitable punctuation?
bridesmaids the the to window crowded
The bridesmaids crowded to the window.
Can you do it with these sentences as well?
1. you I have hoped with to dance another
2. a said with elizabeth why start
3. said artful the smiling he woman little
1. I hoped to have another dance with you.
2. “Why?” said Elizabeth, with a start.
3. “The artful little woman!” he said, smiling.
Sentences taken from the novels of Thomas Hardy.
