We are provided with the first and last parts of a sentence. The remaining sentence is broken into four parts labelled (P), (Q), (R) and (S). You are required to arrange these parts so as to form a complete meaningful sentence and then choose the correct combination.
Milton said that
(P) Those persons
(Q) would be damned
(R) who do not obey
(S) God’s commands
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.
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I was
(P) And stay for a few days in Delhi
(Q) when my father told me
(R) very excited
(S) that i could go with him
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.
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In this type of questions, you are provided with the first and last parts of a sentence. The remaining sentence is broken into four parts labelled (P), (Q), (R) and (S). You are required to arrange these parts so as to form a complete meaningful sentence and then choose the correct combination.
(P) When a chemical substance
(Q) the food poisoning occurred
(R) in the food preparations
(S) was mistaken for salt and used
Answer: B
Correct answer: QPSR
The sentence reads:
The food poisoning occurred when a chemical substance was mistaken for salt and used in the food preparations.
Q is the only part with a main verb, so it must open the sentence; P begins the subordinate clause with when, and S supplies that clause's verbs. R can only attach to used, so it goes last.
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Those who
(P) expect others
(Q) cannot treat
(R) should not
(S) others well
to treat them well
Answer: B
Correct answer: QSRP
The sentence reads:
Those who cannot treat others well should not expect others to treat them well.
Those who needs a verb immediately, and Q supplies it; S completes that clause with the object of treat. R then begins the main clause, and P completes it. Note that S carries two jobs - it ends the relative clause and begins the infinitive that P governs.
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If
(P) a foreigner wishes to
(Q) learn standard English
(R) learn English
(S) he will, of course
Answer: C
Correct answer: PRSQ
The sentence reads:
If a foreigner wishes to learn English he will, of course, learn standard English.
The if clause must be completed before the main clause begins, so P and R go together - wishes to learn English. S then opens the main clause with its subject and auxiliary, and Q supplies the verb phrase it needs.
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There is a fashion now-a-days
(P) as an evil
(Q) who is born with a silver spoon
(R) to bewail poverty
(S) and to pity the young
manin his mouth.
Answer: B
Correct answer: RPSQ
The sentence reads:
There is a fashion nowadays to bewail poverty as an evil and to pity the young man who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
The sentence needs two parallel infinitives after a fashion: to bewail in R and to pity in S. P completes the first with as an evil, and Q supplies the relative clause describing the young man.
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By this time
(P) at the railway station
(Q) reported mass looting
(R) reports of violence were flooding in
(S) while police dispatches
Answer: D
Correct answer: SQRP
The sentence reads:
By this time, while police dispatches reported mass looting, reports of violence were flooding in at the railway station.
S opens a subordinate clause with while and Q gives its verb. R is the only part with a main clause, so it must follow, and P attaches to flooding in as the place.
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The decomposers
(P) and hence help to clean the environment
(Q) help in decomposing the
(R) dead bodies of plants and animals
(S) and put back various useful elements
into soil,air and water.
Answer: C
“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.”
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Paintings
(P) have been
(Q) which were submitted
(R) totally ruined by rain
(S) for the exhibition
last night
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.
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Work is the one thing
(P) and without it
(Q) that is necessary
(R) to keep the world going
(S) we all should die
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.
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