NCERT Solutions for Class 5th English Chapter 5 B. The following words have been rearranged into sentences. Choose the correct option — Let us Learn
Book page 57–58 Updated on2026-09-19
Q1.
The following words have been rearranged into sentences. Choose the correct option.
1. hunts/night/the/silently/tiger/at
a. The tiger hunts silently at night.
b. Tiger hunts the silently at night.
c. Hunts the tiger at night silently.
Answer
Option a — The tiger hunts silently at night.
The rule for English word order: Most simple sentences follow this order — who → does what → how → where or when.
Here: The tiger (who) → hunts (does what) → silently (how) → at night (when).
Why the other two are wrong:
b. “Tiger hunts the silently at night.” The word the has slipped away from tiger. The must sit just before the naming word: the tiger, never the silently.
c. “Hunts the tiger at night silently.” The sentence begins with the doing word. A statement in English begins with who, not with the action. Beginning with the verb turns it into a question or an order.
Q2.
2. elephants/in/forests/live/large/groups/in
a. Elephants live large in groups forests.
b. In groups large, elephants live in forests.
c. Elephants live in large groups in forests.
Answer
Option c — Elephants live in large groups in forests.
Why:Elephants (who) → live (does what) → in large groups (how) → in forests (where). There are two little groups of words here that must stay whole: in large groups and in forests. Never break up a group like that.
Why the other two are wrong:
a. “Elephants live large in groups forests.” The describing word large has been torn away from groups. A describing word comes just before the word it describes — large groups. And forests is left with no in before it.
b. “In groups large, elephants live in forests.” Large is again on the wrong side of groups. In English the describing word goes before the naming word: large groups, not groups large.
Remember: big house, red ball, cold water, large groups. The describing word always comes first.
Q3.
3. web/a/spider/carefully/its/weaves
a. A spider carefully weaves its web.
b. Spider carefully weaves its web a.
c. Carefully a spider weaves web its.
Answer
Option a — A spider carefully weaves its web.
Why:A spider (who) → carefully (how) → weaves (does what) → its web (what it weaves). The word carefully may sit just before the doing word — that is normal and neat English.
Why the other two are wrong:
b. “Spider carefully weaves its web a.” The little word a has been left stranded at the end. A and an and the always come before a naming word — “a spider”. They can never end a sentence.
c. “Carefully a spider weaves web its.” Here its has ended up after web. Words like my, your, its, our come before the naming word — its web, not web its.
Weave means to make cloth or a web by crossing threads over and under each other.
Q4.
4. crocodile/waits/the/silently/riverbank/the/near
a. Crocodile waits the silently the near riverbank.
b. The silently crocodile waits near the riverbank.
c. The crocodile waits silently near the riverbank.
Answer
Option c — The crocodile waits silently near the riverbank.
Why:The crocodile (who) → waits (does what) → silently (how) → near the riverbank (where). Both thes are in their proper place, each one just before its naming word: the crocodile and the riverbank.
Why the other two are wrong:
a. “Crocodile waits the silently the near riverbank.” Both thes are loose in the wrong places, and the first naming word has no the at all.
b. “The silently crocodile waits near the riverbank.” Silently has been used as if it described the crocodile. But silently tells us how it waits — it belongs with the doing word, not with the naming word. We say “a silent crocodile” or “waits silently”, never “the silently crocodile”.
Q5.
5. a/swims/turtle/slowly/in/ocean/the
a. A turtle swims slowly in the ocean.
b. Swims turtle slowly an ocean in.
c. The ocean swims a slowly turtle in.
Answer
Option a — A turtle swims slowly in the ocean.
Why:A turtle (who) → swims (does what) → slowly (how) → in the ocean (where). This uses exactly the words given: a before turtle, and the before ocean.
Why the other two are wrong:
b. “Swims turtle slowly an ocean in.” It begins with the doing word, it uses an which was not in the list, and in has been pushed to the end. Small words like in, on, near, under come before the place, not after it.
c. “The ocean swims a slowly turtle in.” This makes the ocean do the swimming, which cannot be. And slowly has been squeezed in front of turtle, where it does not belong.
A checking trick for all five: Read your chosen sentence aloud and ask yourself four questions in order — Who? Does what? How? Where or when? If each answer comes in that order and nothing is left over, the sentence is right.