Reconstruction of Sentence Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: SQRP

The sentence reads:

A Sub-inspector of police bent on doing justice to his uniform rounded up a group of 18 miscreants disturbing a public meeting and marched them to the local jail in Shimoga.

S and Q form a participial phrase describing the officer and must follow him. R supplies the main verb, and P is a participle describing the miscreants, so it must follow them.

Answer: B

Correct answer: QPRS

The sentence reads:

He dared to fight the forty thieves who challenged him to a duel.

Q completes dared with its infinitive, P is the object of fight, and R and S form the relative clause describing the thieves.

Answer: B

“The decomposers help in decomposing the dead bodies of plants and animals and hence help to clean the environment and put back various useful elements into soil, air and water.”

Answer: D

Correct answer: QSPR

The sentence reads:

Paintings which were submitted for the exhibition last night have been totally ruined by rain.

Q begins a relative clause describing paintings and S completes it, so the two must stay together. Only then can the main verb arrive: P supplies the auxiliary and R the participle.

Answer: C

Correct answer: QRPS

The sentence reads:

Work is the one thing that is necessary to keep the world going and without it we all should die.

Q begins the relative clause after the one thing, and R gives the purpose that completes it. P then joins a second clause with and, and S supplies its subject and verb.

Answer: B

Correct answer: PSRQ

The sentence reads:

While some people live in luxury many have not even enough to eat and drink and wear.

P opens the concessive clause and S completes it - live in luxury. R is the main clause, and Q supplies the infinitives that enough requires.

Answer: C

“Jawaharlal Nehru was the first to articulate the idea of a Constituent Assembly long before such an assembly was set up under the Cabinet Mission Scheme.”

Answer: D

Correct answer: SPRQ

The sentence reads:

After coming out of the Conference Hall he told the journalists that the meeting unanimously decided that the government must take firm action.

S is a participial phrase and must attach to the subject it modifies, so it comes first with P immediately after. R and Q are then two nested that clauses: the meeting decided something, and Q is what it decided.

Answer: D

Correct answer: SQRP

The sentence reads:

The claim is not that science is actively anti-moral but that it is without morality of any kind.

Not… but is a fixed pair, and each half must carry its own that clause. S is the first, Q the connective, R the second, and P completes R with of any kind.

Answer: B

“A four-year study conducted by the Infant Testing Centre clearly suggests than with strange adults That babies feel more comfortable around other babies .”