Source: Extra Practice
Rearrange the given jumbled words to make a grammatically correct and meaningful sentence: "shines / the / brightly / sun / afternoon / in / the"
Options
Option A is correct
The sun shines brightly in the afternoon.
Option B
The afternoon shines sun in the brightly.
Option C
Brightly the sun in the afternoon shines.
Option D
In the afternoon shines brightly sun.
Explanation
To form a meaningful assertive sentence, we generally follow the Subject + Verb + Adverb/Object + Prepositional Phrase pattern. In Option 1, 'The sun' is the subject, 'shines' is the verb, 'brightly' is the adverb describing the action, and 'in the afternoon' is the prepositional phrase indicating time. This forms a grammatically correct and logical statement. The other options violate standard English word order and do not make sense.