Reconstruction of Sentence Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The correct sequence is PQSR.

The subject is the noun phrase 'the rapid advancement (P) of artificial intelligence (Q)', where Q completes P. The verb 'has transformed' (S) follows, and its object 'many industries' (R) ends the sentence:

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has transformed many industries.

PQRS puts the object before the verb. QSPR and QPSR begin with 'of artificial intelligence', a phrase that cannot open a sentence because it depends on the noun before it.

Answer: A

The correct order is PRSQ: You will get the right to vote when you come of age.

Start with the main clause, You will get (P). Its object must follow at once: the right (R), which is completed by the infinitive to vote (S) that says what right is meant. The time clause when you come of age (Q) comes last. To come of age means to reach the age at which the law treats one as an adult.

PSQR and PSRQ put to vote before the right, which breaks the phrase the right to vote. PQRS leaves the object stranded after the time clause, giving when you come of age the right to vote.

Answer: B

The correct order is PRQS: Had you worked hard in time you would certainly have succeeded in the examination.

Had you worked hard (P) is an inverted conditional, meaning If you had worked hard, so it must open the sentence. In time (R) completes that condition: working hard early enough. The result clause follows, and its verb must stay together: you would certainly have (Q) succeeded in the examination (S).

PQRS gives would certainly have in time succeeded, splitting the verb phrase awkwardly. SPRQ and SRQP begin with succeeded in the examination, which has no subject and cannot start the sentence.

Answer: B

The correct order is PQSR: He ran so fast that he was able to overtake the escaping thief.

The sentence uses the so ... that pattern of cause and result. He ran so fast (P) states the cause, that he was able (Q) begins the result, and able must be followed by its infinitive, to overtake (S). The object of overtake, the escaping thief (R), comes last.

QRSP and SPQR begin with fragments that cannot open a sentence. SRPQ starts with to overtake the escaping thief and leaves that he was able with nothing to complete it.

Answer: D

The correct order is PRQS: You can hang the picture wherever you like.

You can hang (P) needs its object straight after the verb: the picture (R). The adverb clause of place follows, introduced by wherever (Q) and completed by you like (S), meaning in any place you choose.

QSRP begins with the clause wherever you like and then gives the picture you can hang, which leaves no proper main clause. PSQR gives You can hang you like, and SPQR begins with you like; neither is grammatical.

Answer: C

The correct order is PRSQ: Can you lay aside your work for sometime to talk to me?

Lay aside means to put something down or stop doing it for a while. The question opens with Can you lay aside (P), its object your work (R) follows, then the duration for sometime (S), and finally the purpose, to talk to me (Q), which explains why the work should be put aside. (Standard spelling would be for some time.)

QSRP and RQSP do not begin with the auxiliary Can, so they cannot form the question. SPRQ starts with for sometime and puts it before Can you, which leaves a broken question.

Answer: A

The correct order is PRSQ: He talks as if he were my boss.

He talks (P) is the main clause. As if (R) introduces a comparison with something that is not true, and such a clause takes the subjunctive were for every person: he were (S). The complement my boss (Q) completes it.

PSQR gives He talks he were my boss as if, and QRSP and SRQP begin with fragments, my boss and he were, that cannot open the sentence. Only PRSQ produces a grammatical sentence with the expected subjunctive.

Answer: A

The correct order is (b) - (c) - (d) - (a): Every citizen should work sincerely for the welfare of society.

The subject every citizen (b) comes first, followed by the verb phrase should work (c). The adverb of manner sincerely (d) sits right after the verb it modifies, and the purpose phrase for the welfare of society (a) closes the sentence.

Orders starting with (c) or (d) put the verb or adverb before the subject and do not form a statement. Every citizen sincerely should work (b-d-c-a) puts the adverb in an awkward position before the modal.

Answer: A

The correct order is (b) - (a) - (d) - (c): The leader delivered a remarkable speech on environment protection during the conference.

The leader delivered (b) gives subject and verb, and its object a remarkable speech (a) must follow at once. On environment protection (d) describes the speech, so it stays next to it, and the time phrase during the conference (c) ends the sentence.

Starting with (a) or (d) leaves the sentence without a subject at the front. (b)-(c)-(a)-(d) splits the verb from its object with the time phrase, which reads awkwardly.

Answer: C

The proper sequence is PSRQ.

The sentence reads: 'It is known that the world's greatest men (P) have not laboured (S) with a view to (R) becoming rich (Q).'

P supplies the subject, S its verb, and the phrase 'with a view to' must be followed by its object 'becoming rich'. Any order that puts R or Q before the subject, as in RQPS or RQSP, leaves the clause without a proper start, and PRQS separates the subject from its verb.