SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 10 September 2024, Shift 3 · English Comprehension · Question 7 of 100

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Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Select the option that arranges the parts in the correct sequence to form a meaningful sentence. (P) technology has revolutionised (Q) and it has transformed the way (O) every aspect of our lives (R) we communicate and connect

(a)RPOQ
(b)ORQP
(c)RPQO
(d)POQR

Answer

Why

Correct — D. Find the part that can legally stand first. Only (P) technology has revolutionised carries a subject and a finite verb with nothing missing before it.

revolutionised is transitive and needs an object, and (O) every aspect of our lives is the only noun phrase available to take it. That fixes PO.

(Q) and it has transformed the way opens with and, so it must join a second clause, and the way then needs a defining clause after it.

(R) we communicate and connect is that clause. PO followed by QR is option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
RPOQ — RPOQ opens with we communicate and connect, which has nothing to attach to, and it ends on and it has transformed the way, left dangling with no clause to complete it.
(b)
ORQP — ORQP begins with the object phrase every aspect of our lives, which has no verb before it, so the sentence opens on a fragment.
(c)
RPQO — RPQO puts every aspect of our lives after the way, where a defining clause is required, and it leaves revolutionised with no object of its own.

Concept

A parts jumble is solved by grammar, not by story order.

Ask three questions. Which part can legally begin a sentence? Which verb needs an object, and which part supplies it? Which connective — and, which, the way — demands something specific after it?

Here revolutionised demands an object and the way demands a clause. Those two demands fix the whole order before you read the sentence for sense.

The stem labels the parts P, Q, O, R rather than P, Q, R, S, and it prints them out of alphabetical order.

Copy the labels exactly as given before rearranging, or your working will not line up with the option strings.

Key facts

A part can open a sentence only if it has its own subject and finite verb, unless it is a modifier.
Revolutionise is transitive, so whatever follows it must be a noun phrase.
The phrase the way is completed by a clause, as in the way we communicate.

Study next

Parts jumbles solved by a transitive verb hunting for its objectSentence jumbles where a pronoun points back to a noun in an earlier sentenceConnectives that cannot start a sentence in these items, such as and or but

Common traps

Starting with the part that sounds most like an opening line rather than the one able to open grammatically.
Ignoring the and in part (Q), which can only join a second clause and so cannot come first.

SSC prints both flavours of jumble — parts of one sentence, as here, and whole sentences to be ordered into a paragraph.

The parts version also runs at 10 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.15, and the paragraph version at 10 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.12 and 10 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.12.

Related PYQs

No directly related past PYQ was found.