NDA (II) 2022 GAT Q29: a much wider array of perspectives P / the editors of the

Q: What is the answer to NDA (II) 2022 GAT Q29?

A. Correct — A, QSRP. Assembled, the sentence reads 'The editors of the present work (Q) argue the need to understand (S) the history of social reforms from (R) a much wider array of perspectives (P).' Q is the subject, S supplies the verb 'argue', R names what is to be understood, and P has to follow R because R ends on the preposition 'from', which needs an object.

NDA (II) 2022 General Ability Test · Question 29 of 150

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a much wider array of perspectives P / the editors of the present work Q / the history of social reforms from R / argue the need to understand S

(a)QSRP
(b)QPRS
(c)RSQP
(d)SQRP

Answer

Why

Correct — A, QSRP. Assembled, the sentence reads 'The editors of the present work (Q) argue the need to understand (S) the history of social reforms from (R) a much wider array of perspectives (P).' Q is the subject, S supplies the verb 'argue', R names what is to be understood, and P has to follow R because R ends on the preposition 'from', which needs an object.

Why the others are wrong

(b)QPRS — Following the subject with 'a much wider array of perspectives' gives two noun phrases in a row and holds back the verb 'argue' until after them.
(c)RSQP — 'The history of social reforms from' has no verb and ends on a preposition, so it can neither open the sentence nor be followed directly by the verb 'argue'.
(d)SQRP — Starting on 'argue the need to understand' leaves the verb without a subject, since the people doing the arguing are named only in Q.

Concept

A sentence-ordering item whose order is fixed by a subject and verb pair and by a preposition that must reach its object.

Two joins settle the whole sequence. The plural subject in Q needs the plural verb 'argue' in S, and the 'from' at the end of R can only be completed by the noun phrase in P. Once both pairs are locked, the order writes itself.

Study next

Pairing a subject with its verb across jumbled partsPrepositions stranded at the end of a fragmentNoun phrases serving as the object of 'understand'

Common traps

Leaving a fragment that ends in 'from' without the noun phrase it introduces.
Opening the sentence with a bare verb phrase that has no subject.

Asked as an ordering-of-words item — arrange the four parts into the one order that forms a 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) a fresh eye (Q) the authors of the report (R) the evidence with (S) ask readers to weigh
- (a)QSRP
- (b)PQRS
- (c)RSQP
- (d)SQRP
Answer(a) QSRP — 'The authors of the report ask readers to weigh the evidence with a fresh eye.'
practice — not a real PYQ
Arrange the parts to form a coherent sentence — (P) from many angles (Q) the committee (R) wishes to examine the problem (S) of urban flooding
- (a)PQRS
- (b)SQRP
- (c)QRSP
- (d)RQPS
Answer(c) QRSP — 'The committee wishes to examine the problem of urban flooding from many angles.'