NDA (II) 2022 GAT Q21: to be successful (P) what it is (Q) as a human being (R)

Q: What is the answer to NDA (II) 2022 GAT Q21?

A. Correct — A, SQPR. Put together the parts read 'Have you ever considered (S) what it is (Q) to be successful (P) as a human being (R)?' Only S can open, because it alone holds a subject with a finite verb, and its inverted order marks it as the start of a question. 'Considered' then needs an object, which the noun clause 'what it is' supplies, and 'as a human being' closes by naming the capacity.

NDA (II) 2022 General Ability Test · Question 21 of 150

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to be successful (P) what it is (Q) as a human being (R) have you ever considered (S)

(a)SQPR
(b)RQPS
(c)QRSP
(d)PRSQ

Answer

Why

Correct — A, SQPR. Put together the parts read 'Have you ever considered (S) what it is (Q) to be successful (P) as a human being (R)?' Only S can open, because it alone holds a subject with a finite verb, and its inverted order marks it as the start of a question. 'Considered' then needs an object, which the noun clause 'what it is' supplies, and 'as a human being' closes by naming the capacity.

Why the others are wrong

(b)RQPS — Beginning on 'as a human being' leaves that phrase modifying nothing, and pushing 'have you ever considered' to the end means the question never gets its verb into place.
(c)QRSP — 'What it is' cannot start the sentence, since the noun clause needs the verb 'considered' in front of it, and this order also strands 'to be successful' at the close.
(d)PRSQ — This breaks the welded pair Q and P, because 'what it is' must sit immediately before 'to be successful' for the two to read as one idea.

Concept

A sentence-ordering item in which four labelled fragments must be arranged into the single sequence that yields one grammatical, meaningful sentence.

The quickest handle is to ask which fragment can legally begin a sentence. Only S carries a subject with a finite verb, and its inverted word order marks it as the opening of a question. Once S is fixed, the transitive verb 'considered' pulls the noun clause 'what it is' straight after it.

Study next

Spotting the opener in a jumbled sentence by looking for a subject with a finite verbNoun clauses beginning with what, why and how serving as the object of a verbInfinitive complements in the pattern 'what it is to be'

Common traps

Ordering by which fragment sounds attractive first instead of testing which one can grammatically open a sentence.
Separating 'what it is' from 'to be successful', which belong together.

Asked as an ordering-of-words item — arrange P, Q, R and S into the one sequence that forms a coherent sentence.

Related PYQs

No directly related past PYQ was found.

Practice

practice — not a real PYQ
Arrange the parts to form a coherent sentence — (P) what it takes (Q) to win a medal (R) do you know (S) at the Olympics
- (a)RPQS
- (b)PQRS
- (c)QRSP
- (d)SPQR
Answer(a) RPQS — 'Do you know what it takes to win a medal at the Olympics?'
practice — not a real PYQ
Arrange the parts to form a coherent sentence — (P) the value of time (Q) only those (R) who have wasted their youth (S) understand
- (a)PQRS
- (b)QRSP
- (c)SPQR
- (d)RQPS
Answer(b) QRSP — 'Only those who have wasted their youth understand the value of time.'