SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 12 September 2024, Shift 2 · English Comprehension · Question 14 of 100

Text as printed on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; answer per SSC's tentative key as marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 6 September 2026.

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Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the parts in the correct order to form a meaningful sentence. O. went P. yesterday Q. we R. to the S. park

(a)QORSP
(b)PSROQ
(c)RQOSP
(d)OPQRS

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Build the sentence outward from its skeleton, then read the labels off.

Q (we) is the only part that can be the subject, so it leads.
O (went) is the finite verb and follows its subject: we went.

R (to the) cannot stand without a noun, so S (park) must come straight after it: to the park.
P (yesterday) is an adverb of time, and neutral English order puts it last.

That gives Q-O-R-S-P — we went to the park yesterday — which is option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
PSROQ — PSROQ reads yesterday park to the went we. It puts park before the preposition that governs it and strands the subject we at the very end, after the verb.
(c)
RQOSP — RQOSP reads to the we went park yesterday. The fragment to the is left dangling at the front with no noun after it, and park is cut off from the preposition it belongs to.
(d)
OPQRS — OPQRS is the decoy that leaves the parts in the order printed: went yesterday we to the park. It puts the verb before its subject, which English allows in questions and inversions, not in a plain statement.

Concept

The parts jumble rewards a fixed procedure rather than reading each option aloud.

Find the subject, then the finite verb, and put them in that order. Keep split phrases together — an article with its noun, a preposition with its object. Park adverbials of time at the end unless something forces them forward.

Only then check the four label strings. An option that breaks one of those rules is out on sight, so the sequence can often be settled without assembling every option in full.

The answer wanted is a string of labels, not a sentence, so the last step is transcription. Getting the sentence right and then mis-reading the label order is a real way to lose the mark.

Key facts

In a neutral English statement the subject precedes the finite verb: we went, not went we.
A preposition stays attached to its object, so to the must be immediately followed by its noun.
An adverb of time such as yesterday normally sits at the end of a simple statement, or at the front for emphasis.

Study next

Subject-verb-object order and where adverbials attach in an English clausePrepositional phrases deliberately split across two jumble partsEliminating from the options rather than assembling the sentence from scratch

Common traps

Starting from O because it is the first label printed, when the printed order is deliberately not the answer.
Accepting OPQRS because the alphabetical run looks like the intended sequence.

SSC labels the fragments O, P, Q, R, S and asks for the label string, so a short sentence can still be a four-option puzzle.

The same five-label format and the same OPQRS decoy appear at 10 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.15, keyed RPQOS for she baked a delicious chocolate cake. The jumble also appears in this shift at English Q.5, Q.7 and Q.19.

Related PYQs

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