SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 11 September 2024, Shift 2 · English Comprehension · Question 2 of 100

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Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct logical sequence. A. It contains high levels of Vitamin A and D. B. Cod liver oil is thus used to treat arthritis. C. This supplement is made from the liver of cod fish. D. Cod liver oil is a nutritional supplement.

(a)DCAB
(b)CBAD
(c)ABCD
(d)BACD

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Three cohesion signals fix the order before you read for sense.

Sentence D names the topic in full and defines it — Cod liver oil is a nutritional supplement — so it opens.

Sentence C begins This supplement, a back-reference that needs D in front of it. Sentence A begins It, pointing back once more and adding what the oil contains.

Sentence B begins with thus, the word of conclusion, so it closes. That is DCAB, option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
CBAD — CBAD opens with This supplement, a demonstrative with nothing yet to point at, and it strands the defining sentence D at the end, after the conclusion in B has already been drawn.
(c)
ABCD — ABCD opens with It, a pronoun with no antecedent. A reader meeting It contains high levels of Vitamin A and D as the first line has no idea what It is.
(d)
BACD — BACD opens with thus, which announces a result before any premise has been given. A connector of consequence cannot start the passage.

Concept

Jumbled-sentence items are decided by cohesion devices, not by knowing the subject.

The opening sentence introduces its subject by full name, usually with an indefinite article — a nutritional supplement. It never opens with it, this, such, or a connector.

Every other sentence carries a hook backwards: This supplement in C, It in A. Chain the hooks and the order builds itself.

A sentence beginning thus, therefore or so states a result, so it sits at the end.

You do not have to believe or check the passage's claim about arthritis to order it. The sequence follows from the pronouns and the connector alone, and that is faster than reading all four sentences for meaning.

Key facts

A sentence opening with the pronoun It cannot be first in a jumble, because the pronoun has nothing to refer back to.
Thus, therefore and hence mark a conclusion, which places that sentence after what it follows from.
A full noun phrase with an indefinite article signals first mention, while a demonstrative such as This supplement signals a later one.

Study next

Back-reference markers that fix a jumble: this, these, such, the formerFour-sentence jumbles in which two sentences both look like openersSegment rearrangement, the harder cousin of this item, at English Q.6 of this paper

Common traps

Reading all four sentences for meaning before looking for pronouns and connectors
Treating the most detailed sentence as the opener, when the opener is the one that names the subject for the first time

SSC sets this as four labelled whole sentences here, and as fragments of a single sentence at English Q.15 of this shift, where the key is QRPO. The fragment version is harder because no fragment is a complete clause on its own.

The four-sentence version also runs at 13 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.8, keyed DCBA.

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