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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 21

People

P : at his dispensary

Q : went to him

R : of all professions

S : for medicine and treatment

The Proper sequence should be:

A QPRS

B RPQS

C RQSP

D QRPS

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Question 22

When he

P : did not know

Q : he was nervous and

R : heard the hue and cry at midnight

S : what to do

The Proper sequence should be:

A RQPS

B QSPR

C SQPR

D PQRS

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Question 23

It has been established that

P : Einstein was

Q : although a great scientist

R : weak in arithmetic

S : right from his school days

The Proper sequence should be:

A SRPQ

B QPRS

C QPSR

D RQPS

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Question 24

Then

P : it struck me

Q : of course

R : suitable it was

S : how eminently

The Proper sequence should be:

A SPQR

B QSRP

C PSRQ

D QPSR

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Question 25

I read an advertisement that said

P : posh, air-conditioned

Q : gentleman of taste

R : are available for

S : fully furnished rooms

The Proper sequence should be:

A PQRS

B PSRQ

C PSQR

D SRPQ

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Question 26

Since the beginning of history

P : have managed to catch

Q : the Eskimos and Red Indians

R : by a very difficulty method

S : a few specimens of this aquatic animal

The Proper sequence should be:

A QRPS

B SQPR

C SQRP

D QPSR

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Question 27

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 28

We must read

P : if we want to absorb the fruits of great literature

Q : but with concentration

R : them not as we do cricket stories

S : undefined

The Proper sequence should be:

A QPSR

B PSQR

C PRSQ

D PRQS

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Question 29

I enclose

P : and the postage

Q : a postal order

R : the price of books

S : which will cover

The Proper sequence should be:

A RPSQ

B QSPR

C QSRP

D QPSR

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Question 30

He sat

P : through the Town Hall Park

Q : which flanked a path running

R : under the boughs

S : of a spreading tamarind tree

The Proper sequence should be:

A PQSR

B RSQP

C RSPQ

D PRSQ

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