for yourself the implications of death, (P) if you do not reflect and understand (Q) from one preacher to another (R) you will go endlessly (S)
- (a)SRPQ
- (b)QPSR
- (c)RSPQ
- (d)QRSP
Correct — B, QPSR. The sentence is 'If you do not reflect and understand (Q) for yourself the implications of death, (P) you will go endlessly (S) from one preacher to another (R).' Q opens the conditional clause, P completes 'understand' with its object, the comma printed at the end of P marks the clause break, and S with R gives the result and where the going leads.
- (a)SRPQ — Placing the if-clause at the very end leaves 'for yourself the implications of death' stuck between the finished main clause and the word 'if', with no verb left for it to complete.
- (c)RSPQ — 'From one preacher to another' is a prepositional phrase, and with no verb in front of it, it cannot begin the sentence.
- (d)QRSP — This drops 'from one preacher to another' straight after 'understand', so that verb loses its real object and the sentence ends on the dangling phrase 'the implications of death'.
A sentence-ordering item built on a conditional sentence, where the if-clause and the main clause must each be kept whole and placed in order.
Two printed signals settle it. The word 'if' marks Q as the start of the subordinate clause, and the comma at the end of P marks where that clause closes, so everything up to the comma belongs to the condition and everything after it to the result.
- Starting with the result clause and then trying to squeeze the object phrase in afterwards.
- Attaching 'from one preacher to another' to 'understand' instead of to 'you will go'.
Asked as an ordering-of-words item — arrange the four parts into a single coherent sentence.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Arrange the parts to form a coherent sentence — (P) you will not pass the examination (Q) if you do not revise (R) the whole syllabus (S) at least twice
- (a)PQRS
- (b)QRSP
- (c)RSPQ
- (d)SQRP
Answer(b) QRSP — 'If you do not revise the whole syllabus at least twice, you will not pass the examination.'
- practice — not a real PYQ
Arrange the parts to form a coherent sentence — (P) unless the rains arrive (Q) the reservoir (R) will run dry (S) by June
- (a)PQRS
- (b)QRSP
- (c)SPQR
- (d)RQPS
Answer(a) PQRS — 'Unless the rains arrive, the reservoir will run dry by June.'