NDA (II) 2021 General Ability Test · Question 29 of 149

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.'

• (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.'