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  1. Put up a “Mixed-Up” conversation or a few unrelated sentences on the board or in a PowerPoint presentation. The students then have to turn them into coherent English. Mixed up Sentences is an excellent English grammar activity that can be used to review concepts studied in previous classes.

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  2. A mixed structure sentence is a common error that occurs when a writer starts a sentence with one structure but switches to a different structure in the middle of the sentence. This video will teach you how to spot and avoid this type of error.

  3. Oct 23, 2023 · What is a Jumbled-up Sentence? A jumbled-up sentence is a set of words that are mixed up and need to be rearranged into a proper sequence in order to make a complete, meaningful sentence. For instance, take the words run, can, I and fast. The correct order in a sentence would be I can run fast.

  4. A mixed-construction sentence contains parts that do not fit together because of grammatical structure or meaning. These sentence errors occur when writers begin a statement in one way, or one direction, and then unintentionally change grammatical paths.

  5. There are four types of sentence structures in the English language: A simple sentence - contains only one independent clause e.g. Tom hit the ball. A compound sentence - contains at least two independent clauses e.g. John hit the table and Mike bumped the chair.

  6. A mixed construction is a sentence with incompatible elements that begins with one type of structure and shifts to another type of structure. In these sentences, the speaker sets out to say one thing and abruptly switches to something else, resulting in confusion.

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  8. Kids can mix up words in a sentence when they are first learning to make longer sentences to request (e.g. ‘I can have that please?’ instead of ‘Can I have that please?’). Often it means that kids make a statement when they are really meaning to ask a question.