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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 11

It is not, therefore

P : that I pay a tribute

Q : to conductors as a class

R : with any feeling of unfriendliness

S : to a particular member of that class

The Proper sequence should be:

A PQRS

B RQPS

C RSPQ

D PSRQ

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Question 12

If you need help

P : promptly and politely

Q : ask for attendants

R : to help our customers

S : who have instructions

The Proper sequence should be:

A SQPR

B QPSR

C QSRP

D SQRP

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Question 13

It is easier

P : to venture into space

Q : for men

R : beneath their feet

S : than to explore

The Proper sequence should be:

A QRPS

B QPSR

C PSRQ

D PQSR

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Question 14

It was to be

P : before their school examination

Q : which was due to start

R : the last expedition

S : in a month's

The Proper sequence should be:

A SRQP

B RQSP

C RPQS

D SPRQ

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Question 15

This time

P : exactly what he had been told

Q : the young man did

R : beyond his dreams

S : and the plan succeeded

The Proper sequence should be:

A QPRS

B QPSR

C PQSR

D QSRP

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Question 16

In the darkness

P : the long, narrow beard

Q : was clearly visible with

R : the tall stooping figure of the doctor

S : and the aquiline nose

The Proper sequence should be:

A RQPS

B PSQR

C RSQP

D QPRS

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Question 17

A French woman

P : committed suicide

Q : where she had put up

R : who had come to Calcutta

S : by jumping from the first floor balcony of the hotel

The Proper sequence should be:

A PRQS

B QSRP

C RPSQ

D SRQP

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Question 18

The national unity of a free people

P : to make it impracticable

Q : for there to be an arbitrary administration

R : depends upon a sufficiently even balance of political power

S : against a revolutionary opposition that is irreconcilably opposed to it

The Proper sequence should be:

A QRPS

B QRSP

C RPQS

D RSPQ

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Question 19

The grocer

P : did not listen to the protests of customer

Q : who was in the habit of weighing less

R : whom he had cheated

S : with great audacity

The Proper sequence should be:

A PRSQ

B QSPR

C QPRS

D PQSR

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Question 20

They felt safer

P : to watch the mountain

Q : of more than five miles

R : as they settled down

S : from a distance

The Proper sequence should be:

A RPSQ

B RSQP

C PQSR

D PRSQ

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