Sentence Arrangement – Exercise – 1

6. S1: Ms. Parasuram started a Petrol Pump in Madras.
P: A total to 12 girls now work at the pump.
Q: She advertised in newspapers for women staff.
R: They operate in 2 shifts.
S: The response was good.
S6: Thus she has shown the way for many others.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) PQSR
(b) SQPR
(c) QSPR
(d) PQRS

7. S1: For some time in his youth Abraham Lincoln was manager for a shop.
P: Then a chance Customer would come.
Q: Young Lincoln way of keeping shop was entirely unlike anyone else’s
R: Lincoln would jump up and attend to his needs and then revert to his reading.
S: He used to lie full length on the counter of the shop eagerly reading a book.
S6: Never before had Lincoln had so much time for reading as had then.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) SRQP
(b) QSPR
(c) SQRP
(d) QPSR

8. S1: In the middle of one side of the square sits the Chairman of the committee, the most important person in the room.
P: For a committee is not just a mere collection of individuals.
Q: On him rests much of the responsibility for the success or failure of the committee.
R: While this is happening we have an opportunity to get the ‘feel’ of this committe.
S: As the meeting opens, he runs briskly through a number of formalities.
S6: From the moment its members meet, it begins to have a sort nebulous life of its own.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) RSQP
(b) PQRS
(c) SQPR
(d) QSRP

9. S1: There is a touching story of Professor Hardy visiting Ramanujan as he lay desperately ill in hospital at Putney.
P: ‘No Hardy, that is not a dull number in the very least.
Q: Hardy, who was a very shy man, could not find the words for his distress.
R: It was 1729.
S: The best he could do, as he got to the beside was “I say Ramanujan, I thought the number of taxi I came down in was a very dull number”
S6: It is the lowest number that can be expressed in two different ways as the sum of two cubes.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) PRSQ
(b) QSRP
(c) QSPR
(d) SQRP

10. S1: Most of the universities in the country are now facing financial crisis.
P: Cost benefit yardstick thus should not be applied in the case of universities.
Q: The current state of affairs cannot be allowed to continue for long.
R: Universities cannot be equated with commercial enterprises.
S: Proper development of universities and colleges must be ensured.
S6: The Government should realise this before it is too late.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) QRPS
(b) QSPR
(c) QRSP
(d) QPRS

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