Sentence Arrangement – Exercise – 1

Sentence Arrangement » Exercise – 1

Directions : In the following questions, each passage consist of six sentences. The first and sixth sentence is given and the middle four sentences in each question have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find out the proper order for the four sentences and rearrange the given sentences to form a meaningfully coherent passage.

1. S1: All the land was covered by the ocean.
P: The leading god fought the monster, killed it and chopped its body in to two halves.
Q: A terrible monster prevented the gods from separating the land from the water.
R: The god made the sky out of the upper part of the body and ornamented it with stars.
S: The god created the earth from the lower part, grew plants on it and populated it with animals.
S6: The god moulded the first people out of clay according to his own image and mind.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) PQRS
(b) PQSR
(c) QPSR
(d) QPRS

2. S1: Moncure Conway devoted his life to two great objects freedom of thought, and freedom of the individual.
P: They threaten both kinds of freedom.
Q: But something also has been lost.
R: There are now dangers, somewhat different in form from those of the past ages.
S: In regard to both these objects, something has been gained since his time.
S6: Unless a vigorous and vigilant public opinion can be aroused in defence of them, there will be much less of both a hundred years hence then there is now.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) PQRS
(b) QSPR
(c) SQRP
(d) RSPQ

3. S1: Ants eat worms, centipedes and spiders.
P: They are usually much quicker than the ant itself.
Q: Nevertheless, these animals do not make easy game for ants.
R: Besides, they have an extraordinary number of ways of escaping.
S: They also eat larvae and insect adults such as flies, moths and spring tails.
S6: Some jump, and some give out a pungent repellent substance.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) SQPR
(b) SPRQ
(c) SQRP
(d) SRQP

4. S1: Once upon atime there lived three young men in a certain town of Hindustan.
P: All the people of the neighbourhood were mortally afraid of them.
Q: They were so powerful that they could catch growing lions and tear them to pieces.
R: Someone told them that they would become immortal if they killed Death.
S: The young men believed themselves to be very good friends.
S6: All of them set out in search of their foe called Death.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) QPRS
(b) SQPR
(c) RSQP
(d) SRPQ

5. S1: I took cigarettes from my case.
P: But when the fit of coughing was over, he replaced it between his lips.
Q: I lit one of them and placed it between the lips.
R: Then with a feeble hand he removed the cigarette.
S: Slowly he took a pull at it and coughed violently.
S6: Then he continues to draw on it.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) PSQR
(b) QPSR
(c) QSRP
(d) SRPQ

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