NDA (I) 2024 General Ability Test · Question 33 of 146

Correct — A, SQPR. Reading S-Q-P-R gives 'India's Independence represented for its people the start of an epoch that was imbued with a new vision.' S carries the subject and verb, Q gives the object phrase ending in 'the start of', P supplies the noun 'an epoch' that 'the start of' demands, and R completes the pattern 'imbued ... with a new vision'.

• (b)QRPS — Opens with Q ('for its people the start of'), a fragment with a dangling 'of' and no subject. The subject-plus-verb segment S ('India's Independence represented') must open the sentence; here it is dumped at the very end.
• (c)SPQR — S opens correctly, but jumping to P ('an epoch that was imbued') skips Q — 'the start of' in Q must introduce the noun 'an epoch', so P cannot precede Q. It leaves 'the start of' colliding with 'with a new vision' and breaks the 'start of an epoch' link.
• (d)RQSP — Opens with R ('with a new vision'), a prepositional phrase that cannot begin the sentence and strands 'imbued' with nothing to pair 'with'. The subject S is buried and P ('an epoch that was imbued') is left dangling at the close.

A sentence-ordering item where 'the start of' at the end of Q must be followed by a noun (P, 'an epoch'), and 'imbued' pairs with 'with' in R.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Arrange to form a coherent sentence: (P) so that he could pass (Q) he worked (R) the examination (S) very hard

  • (a)QSPR
  • (b)SQPR
  • (c)QSRP
  • (d)SPQR

  Answer(a) QSPR — 'He worked very hard so that he could pass the examination.'

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Arrange to form a coherent sentence: (P) at the station (Q) the train arrived (R) late (S) ten minutes

  • (a)QPSR
  • (b)PQSR
  • (c)QSPR
  • (d)QPRS

  Answer(a) QPSR — 'The train arrived at the station ten minutes late.'