NDA (I & II) 2020 General Ability Test · Question 18 of 148

Correct — C, R Q P S. Reassembled, the parts read: 'It is miserable solitude that compels a person to (R) make friends, and a person wills to want true (Q) friends without which the world is (P) nothing other than a place of wilderness (S).' Only R can open the sentence because it alone carries a subject and main verb ('it is miserable solitude that compels a person to'); Q completes that with the verb phrase 'make friends... want true', P links on with 'friends without which the world is', and S closes with 'nothing other than a place of wilderness'.

• (a)P R Q S — Beginning with P ('friends without which the world is') gives the sentence no subject or main clause, so it never gets started.
• (b)Q R P S — Q is a mid-sentence predicate ('make friends and a person wills to want true') and cannot open the passage; it needs R's 'compels a person to' before it.
• (d)P Q R S — Same false start with P first, and it separates R's 'compels a person to' from Q's 'make friends', breaking the sense.

This is a sentence-rearrangement (para-jumble) item — order parts P, Q, R, S into one grammatical, logically linked sentence; the opener must be the part that supplies the subject and main verb (here R).

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Arrange the parts into a sentence: 'that keeps us going (P) / it is hope (Q) / even in the darkest hours (R)'.

  • (a)Q P R
  • (b)P Q R
  • (c)R Q P
  • (d)Q R P

  Answer(a) Q P R — 'It is hope that keeps us going even in the darkest hours'; Q carries the subject/verb, so it opens.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Arrange the parts into a sentence: 'without effort (P) / no goal is reached (Q) / and steady patience (R)'.

  • (a)P R Q
  • (b)Q P R
  • (c)R P Q
  • (d)Q R P

  Answer(b) Q P R — 'No goal is reached without effort and steady patience'; Q is the main clause and must lead.