membership and partisanship as well as (P) can be found in the decline in party (Q) evidence of a crisis in party politics (R) in the rise of antiparty groups and movements (S) The correct sequence should be:

Correct — A, RQPS. R is the subject ('evidence of a crisis in party politics'), Q gives the verb and first location ('can be found in the decline in party'), P continues it ('membership and partisanship as well as'), and S adds the second location ('in the rise of antiparty groups and movements'). Read in order RQPS it becomes 'Evidence of a crisis in party politics can be found in the decline in party membership and partisanship as well as in the rise of antiparty groups and movements.'

Why the others are wrong

• (b)
  QRSP — 'Can be found in the decline in party' cannot open the sentence; its subject 'evidence of a crisis...' (R) must come first.
• (c)
  RSQP — Placing S ('in the rise of antiparty...') before the verb-fragment Q breaks the 'can be found in... as well as in...' structure.
• (d)
  QPSR — Leading with Q leaves the subject R buried at the end, so the sentence has no subject up front.

A sentence-rearrangement item using the correlative 'as well as' — the subject 'evidence of a crisis...' opens the sentence, and two parallel locations ('in the decline...' and 'in the rise...') are joined by 'as well as'.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Arrange into a sentence: crowded classrooms as well as (P) / can be seen in the shortage of (Q) / signs of strain in the school system (R) / in the lack of trained teachers (S).

  • (a)RQPS
  • (b)PQRS
  • (c)RSQP
  • (d)QPSR
  Answer(a) RQPS — 'Signs of strain in the school system can be seen in the shortage of crowded classrooms as well as in the lack of trained teachers.'
• practice — not a real PYQ

  Arrange into a sentence: falling water tables as well as (P) / can be traced to the overuse of (Q) / proof of a growing water crisis (R) / in the drying up of rivers (S).

  • (a)RQPS
  • (b)PQRS
  • (c)RSQP
  • (d)QPSR
  Answer(a) RQPS — 'Proof of a growing water crisis can be traced to the overuse of falling water tables as well as in the drying up of rivers.'