was the victory secured by the women’s hockey team (P) in the arena of sport, perhaps (Q) against Australia in the Tokyo Olympics (R) the greatest moment in Indian Olympic history (S) The correct sequence should be
- (a)SPQR
- (b)RPQS
- (c)QSPR
- (d)QRPS
Correct — C, QSPR. Reassembled, the parts read 'In the arena of sport, perhaps (Q) the greatest moment in Indian Olympic history (S) was the victory secured by the women’s hockey team (P) against Australia in the Tokyo Olympics (R).' Q frames the topic, S is the subject, P supplies the verb and doer, and R closes with the opponent and event, so the order is QSPR.
- (a)SPQR — Opening with S ('the greatest moment in Indian Olympic history') drops the framing phrase 'in the arena of sport, perhaps' (Q), which should introduce the claim.
- (b)RPQS — Opening with R ('against Australia in the Tokyo Olympics') begins on a bare prepositional phrase, which cannot start the sentence.
- (d)QRPS — Placing R straight after Q puts the opponent phrase before the subject, so 'perhaps against Australia' reads as a broken clause with no main subject yet.
A sentence-ordering (parajumble) item — the four labelled parts must be arranged so that subject, verb and modifiers follow in one grammatical, meaningful order.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Arrange the parts to form a coherent sentence: (P) the lights (Q) he switched off (R) the room (S) before leaving.
- (a)QPSR
- (b)PQRS
- (c)SQPR
- (d)RPQS
Answer(a) QPSR — 'He switched off the lights before leaving the room.'
- practice — not a real PYQ
Arrange the parts to form a coherent sentence: (P) many trees (Q) they planted (R) the river bank (S) along.
- (a)PQRS
- (b)SQPR
- (c)QPSR
- (d)RQPS
Answer(c) QPSR — 'They planted many trees along the river bank.'