Reconstruction of Sentence Questions and Answers

Answer: B

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: 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: A

Correct answer: QSPR

The sentence reads:

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

Q is a participial phrase describing the study and must follow it. S supplies the main verb, P opens the that clause, and R gives the first half of the comparison that the closing words complete.

Answer: B

Correct answer: QSPR

The sentence reads:

A typical Sachin day starts off with an early morning or even a game of cricket on some days.

Q supplies the main verb, so it must follow the subject at once. S completes starts off with, P offers the alternative with or even, and R qualifies that alternative.

Answer: C

Correct answer: QRPS

The sentence reads:

Long, long time ago in a country called Chinchinchoo there ruled a noble king who lived with his virtuous wife and seven daughters - pretty, graceful and well-versed in fine arts.

Q gives the place, R the main clause, P a relative clause describing the king, and S the second half of his virtuous wife and seven daughters.

Answer: D

Correct answer: QPSR

The sentence reads:

The boy watched him, with big blue eyes that had an uncanny cold fire in them, and he never said a word.

Q supplies the main verb for the boy. P and S then describe the eyes, and S must follow P because that had… in them is a relative clause needing eyes before it. R joins the second main clause with and.

Answer: A

Correct answer: PQRS

The sentence reads:

Milton said that those persons would be damned who do not obey God's commands.

P supplies the subject of the that clause and Q its verb. R is a relative clause describing those persons, and S is its object.

Answer: C

Correct answer: RQSP

The sentence reads:

I was very excited when my father told me that I could go with him and stay for a few days in Delhi.

R completes I was, so it must come first. Q opens the when clause, S is what was said, and P adds the second half of what was permitted, joined by and to go.

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.