Cohesion across Dense Sentence Patterns

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Practice level

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Question formats

Sentence reordering

How to approach this practice

Read the complete context. Check both the meaning and the grammar, including word forms, collocations and links between sentences.

1. Question 1 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • The review
   • and
   • between evidence that supports a claim
   • distinguishes
   • evidence that uniquely establishes it.
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   The review distinguishes between evidence that supports a claim and evidence that uniquely establishes it.

   Between...and coordinates parallel noun phrases with defining relatives.

2. Question 2 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • The conclusion
   • and provisional in its status.
   • circumscribed in its scope
   • coherent in its reasoning,
   • is
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   The conclusion is coherent in its reasoning, circumscribed in its scope and provisional in its status.

   Three parallel adjective-plus-preposition phrases qualify different dimensions.

3. Question 3 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • While
   • it leaves
   • the account explains the general pattern,
   • the exceptional cases
   • unresolved.
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   While the account explains the general pattern, it leaves the exceptional cases unresolved.

   The opening concession contrasts broad explanation with remaining exceptions.

4. Question 4 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • The task
   • is
   • neither to defend every detail
   • nor
   • to reject the account wholesale.
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   The task is neither to defend every detail nor to reject the account wholesale.

   Neither...nor coordinates infinitive purposes.

5. Question 5 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • The argument
   • but because
   • fails
   • its premises do not entail it.
   • not because its conclusion is impossible
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   The argument fails not because its conclusion is impossible but because its premises do not entail it.

   Not because...but because distinguishes the actual criticism from a stronger one.

6. Question 6 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • The policy
   • and
   • both in terms of its stated purpose
   • in light of its actual effects.
   • must be assessed
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   The policy must be assessed both in terms of its stated purpose and in light of its actual effects.

   Both...and coordinates two evaluative prepositional phrases.

7. Question 7 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • The question
   • is
   • not
   • whether the difference is substantive,
   • whether the wording differs.
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   The question is whether the difference is substantive, not whether the wording differs.

   The contrast distinguishes substantive difference from mere wording difference.

8. Question 8 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • The evidence
   • is sufficient
   • making the stronger claim inevitable.
   • to keep the possibility open
   • without
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   The evidence is sufficient to keep the possibility open without making the stronger claim inevitable.

   Sufficient to and without ing separate possibility from necessity.

9. Question 9 · Sentence reordering

   Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

   Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

   Sentence parts

   • The response
   • acknowledges
   • to treat all explanations as equally plausible.
   • what remains uncertain
   • while declining
   Check answers and explanations

   Correct order

   The response acknowledges what remains uncertain while declining to treat all explanations as equally plausible.

   A what-clause is the object; the reduced while-clause limits the concession.

10. Question 10 · Sentence reordering

    Arrange these parts into the correct sentence.

    Put the chunks in order to make one complete sentence. Keep the capitalised opening first and the punctuated ending last.

    Sentence parts

    • The more
    • for an unwarranted inference.
    • precisely the claim is qualified,
    • room there is
    • the less
    Check answers and explanations

    Correct order

    The more precisely the claim is qualified, the less room there is for an unwarranted inference.

    The paired comparative relates precise qualification to reduced scope for overreach.

What to review next

Explain why each answer fits the meaning and structure. Record useful phrases and write a new example using each pattern you found difficult.

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