Scrambled Sentences

Why did the basketball player bring a suitcase with him to a ball game? Just in case he travels!

The words in the sentences have been scrambled. On the lines provided below each sentence, re-write the words of the sentence in the correct order.

1. came up from the pasture sounds of laughter and splashing

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2. the walnut trees there is even a white row of beehives in the orchard under _____________________________________________________

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3. fire that was burning under the edge of the world the dawn in the east looked like the light from some great

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4. was much too big for him and made him look like a little old man his black cloth coat

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5. the gray prairie under a gray sky a mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the cluster of low drab buildings huddled on

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6. and the fields were scarcely noticeable the roads were but faint tracks in the grass

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7. with red berries at one end next the rhubarb grew feathery asparagus

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8. was nobody abroad in the streets the children were all in school and there

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9. and above it a door and a single window were set into the hillside at one end of the pond was an earthen dam planted with green willow bushes

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10. the sweetest music the chirping of the insects down in the long grass had been like

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