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Category: Sentence & Paragraph Skills
Topic: Ordering of Words
Exercise: Ordering of Words -1
Questions: 49

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In each question below, there is a sentence of which some parts have been jumbled up. Rearrange these parts which are labelled P, Q, R and S to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence.

Question 1

With her body

P : dragging her unwilling feet

Q : weak and infirm

R : doubled with age

S : she persisted in her mission

The Proper sequence should be:

A PQRS

B QPRS

C RQPS

D SRPQ

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Question 2

Of many artists

P : those who impressed me the most

Q : I was a child

R : but those with unique personalities off stage

S : were not always the successful ones

The Proper sequence should be:

A SRQP

B QRSP

C RSPQ

D QPSR

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Question 3

As a disease

P : and breaks up marriages

Q : accidents and suicides

R : alcoholism leads to

S : affecting all ages

The Proper sequence should be:

A SRPQ

B RPSQ

C SRQP

D RQPS

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Question 4

It is easy to excuse

P : but it is hard

Q : in a boy of fourteen

R : the mischief of early childhood

S : to tolerate even unavoidable faults

The Proper sequence should be:

A RPQS

B QRSP

C QRPS

D RPSQ

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Question 5

The majestic mahogany table

P : belongs to an old prince

Q : which has one leg missing

R : who is no impoverished

S : but not without some pride

The Proper sequence should be:

A PQSR

B QRSP

C PRSQ

D QPRS

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Question 6

Education is

P : of the proper sense of responsibilities

Q : the first need

R : in a citizen

S : for the development

The Proper sequence should be:

A SQPR

B QSRP

C QSPR

D PQRS

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Question 7

We have to

P : as we see it

Q : speak the truth

R : there is falsehood and weakness

S : even if all around us

The Proper sequence should be:

A RQSP

B QRPS

C RSQP

D QPSR

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Question 8

When it began to rain suddenly on the first of January

P : to celebrate the new year

Q : we ran for shelter

R : to the neighbouring house

S : where many people had gathered

The Proper sequence should be:

A QRPS

B PSQR

C PRSQ

D QRSP

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Question 9

He told us that

P : and enjoyed it immensely

Q : in a prose translation

R : he had read Milton

S : which he had borrowed from his teacher

The Proper sequence should be:

A RSQP

B QRPS

C RQSP

D RQPS

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Question 10

He knew that

P : and then to save himself

Q : was to save all the lives

R : entrusted to his care

S : the duty of a captain

The Proper sequence should be:

A PQRS

B SQRP

C SPRQ

D QSRP

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