What are the ways that you can unscramble sentences?

Answer 1

A sentence is a group of words in a meaningful form, expressing a statement, question, command, or exclamation.

e.g. The boy is tall. How tall is he? Tell me. Wow, that's tall!

Scrambled sentences, depending on the number of words, may form a meaningful sentence if they include a subject and a verb, or with a subject understood.

e.g. my get house out of can form the sentence (I want you to) Get out of my house.

It may not be possible to make a good sentence out of a large group of words with relatively many of just a few parts of speech, such as adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions.

e.g. seemed surprising door unlocked cannot make a sensible sentence, but just adding one more word, an, and a using a comma, you can write "An unlocked door seemed surprising." The word unlocked can be a verb or adjective, and surprising can be a noun, adjective or verb, and these can complicate long sentence unscrambling.

Answer 2

List the nouns, verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, adjectives, adverbs, and articles separately. Then see if you have multiple verbs to match multiple subjects so that you can form independent clauses. Often adverbs will be obviously matched to a certain verb or adjective.

Except in designed examples, there will often be more than one way to construct a sentence from a set of words.

Example:

the

saw

cat

dog

big

a

-- The cat saw a big dog.

-- The dog saw a big cat.