Writing: Build a Sentence
Learn the connectors and structural words this task rearranges — the pieces that decide where a clause can legally go in an English sentence.
How to use these words: ETS describes this task as testing the reconstruction of sentence structure rather than free vocabulary production. The words that matter are the ones with fixed positions: subordinators, correlatives and linking adverbs.
Frequently asked questions
What level does this task cover?⌄
ETS targets it across roughly A1 to C2, so it ranges from simple clause order up to complex subordination.
Is this a vocabulary task?⌄
Partly. It tests structure, but structure in English is carried by particular words — and knowing what each connector demands after it is what makes the ordering obvious.
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