crushes the spirit behind the service it stunts the person offering the same and P Q exhibition or for fear of public opinion R when service is done for S
- (a)S Q R P
- (b)S P Q R
- (c)R S P Q
- (d)S R Q P
Correct — D, the order S R Q P. S opens the conditional adverbial ('when service is done for') and R supplies its object ('exhibition or for fear of public opinion'); the main clause then follows — Q ('it stunts the person offering the same and') joined by 'and' to P ('crushes the spirit behind the service'), a parallel pair of verbs 'stunts... and crushes'.
- (a)S Q R P — Places Q between S and its object R, breaking 'done for exhibition...' into 'done for it stunts the person' — S's preposition 'for' is left without its object.
- (b)S P Q R — Follows S directly with P ('crushes the spirit...'), again stranding S's 'for' with no object and stranding R ('exhibition...') at the very end.
- (c)R S P Q — Opens with R ('exhibition or for fear of public opinion'), a prepositional object with no governing phrase before it, so the sentence lacks a grammatical start.
A sentence-rearrangement item where a 'when...' conditional adverbial (with its object) precedes a main clause built on the parallel verbs 'stunts... and crushes'.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The fragment 'when service is done for' must be immediately followed by —
- (a)'it stunts the person offering the same and'
- (b)'exhibition or for fear of public opinion'
- (c)'crushes the spirit behind the service'
- (d)nothing; it ends the sentence
Answer(b) 'exhibition or for fear of public opinion' — it is the object of the preposition 'for'.
- practice — not a real PYQ
In 'it stunts the person offering the same and crushes the spirit', the two verbs are —
- (a)unrelated clauses
- (b)a parallel pair joined by 'and'
- (c)a question and answer
- (d)cause and effect
Answer(b) a parallel pair joined by 'and' — 'stunts... and crushes' share the subject 'it'.