Versant practice: Sentence builds 1 Sentence builds 1

Let's get ready for the Versant Placement Test!
***Answer key at the bottom of the description***

Practice part C of the test: Sentence Builds

"For the Sentence Builds task, candidates hear three short phrases and are asked to rearrange them to make a sentence. The phrases are presented in a scrambled order and the candidate mentally rearranges them, then constructs and says a sentence made up of the three phrases.

Examples:
1. my boss / to London / moved
2. of your family / any pictures / do you have
3. to their leader / listened carefully / the young men

To correctly complete this task, a candidate must understand the meaning of the individual phrases and know how they might combine with other phrasal material, both with regard to syntax and pragmatics. The length and complexity of the sentence that can be built is constrained by the size of the phrase that a person can hold in verbal working memory. This is important to measure because it reflects the candidate’s ability to access and retrieve lexical items and to build phrases and clause structures automatically. The more automatic these processes are, the greater the candidate’s facility in spoken English. This skill is demonstrably distinct from memory span (as further discussed in Section 2.5.2).

The Sentence Builds task involves constructing and articulating sentences. As such, it is a measure of candidates’ mastery of sentences, in addition to their pronunciation and fluency" ("Student placement test", 2019)

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Student placement test. (2019). Retrieved 6 December 2019, from https://www.pearson.com/english/versant/tests/student-placement-test.html

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Answer key:

1. My boss moved to London.
2. Do you have any pictures of your family?
3. The young men listen carefully to their leader.
4. Real smiles and fake smiles are controlled by different parts of the brain.
5. Have you ever had one of those weeks?
6. Making a good impression at a job interview requires some preparation.
7. Being punctual shows respect in Korea / In Korea, being punctual shows respect. Being punctual in Korea shows respect (I should have used a different sentence, because this one has more than one correct answer, sorry about that).
8. You should speak about your experience and qualifications.
9. Remember to present your business card directly.
10. You've lived abroad, haven't you?

I bet you did well!

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