Reconstruction of Sentence Questions and Answers

Answer: C

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.

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.

Answer: B

Correct answer: QRSP

The sentence reads:

The effect of the cinema on the school and college going youngsters in the cities and the villages is very bad.

Q is the subject and R its qualifier, so the two must stay together. S carries both the preposition on and the main verb, and P supplies the noun that school and college going modifies, so it must sit inside S's phrase - which is why it comes last in the code but reads in the middle.

Answer: D

Correct answer: PRQS

The sentence reads:

'I have not come to complain,' he said, 'but the boy must learn to be honest, even if it means some humiliation, and admit he broke it.'

P is the first half of a not… but pair and R the second. Q is a concessive clause attached to R, and S is joined by and to learn, so it must come after the clause that interrupts them.

Answer: C

Correct answer: QPSR

The sentence reads:

Our country has been a land of learning, not indeed in the sense that education has been universal, but in the sense that learning has been prized and the learned man has been held in higher esteem than the warrior or administrator.

Q is the only main clause and opens the sentence. P begins the qualification with not indeed in the sense, S supplies the sense that is meant, and R adds the second half with and.

Answer: A

Correct answer: QPSR

The sentence reads:

Many students from all over India appear in examinations which are held on all India basis by different organisations.

Q is the subject and P its verb, so they lead. S is a relative clause describing examinations and must follow that noun; R then completes held… by.

Answer: B

Correct answer: QSRP

The sentence reads:

In view of the prevailing weather conditions agricultural experts have advised farmers to smoke their fields during the night to protect vegetables from cold.

Q is an introductory phrase, so it comes first. S supplies subject and verb, R gives what the farmers were advised to do, and P is the purpose, which must follow the action it explains.

Answer: D

Correct answer: SRQP

The sentence reads:

On Saturday morning Rahul jumped out of bed and ran downstairs to see if it was time to go yet.

S sets the time, R gives the first action, Q the second joined by and, and P is the indirect question that see requires.

Answer: B

Correct answer: RPQS

The sentence reads:

I wasn't sure what I really wished in my heart of hearts - to hear his voice through that window once more.

R is the main clause and must open. P is the phrase that qualifies wished, Q supplies the infinitive it takes, and S completes that infinitive with where the voice would be heard.

Answer: A

Correct answer: RPSQ

The sentence reads:

Your letter was a big relief. You hadn't written for over a month. How did your exams go? I am sure you will come out with flying colours. After your result, you must come here for a week.

R explains why the letter was a relief, so it follows the opening sentence. P asks the question, S answers it with reassurance, and Q looks ahead to the result, which cannot precede the question about the exams.