SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 17 September 2024, Shift 2 · English Comprehension · Question 9 of 100

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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. P) willing to go Q) is not R) my son S) camping

(a)QRSP
(b)SPRQ
(c)PQRS
(d)RQPS

Answer

Why

Correct — D. Rule: subject → finite verb → complement → the -ing form that 'go' demands.

R, 'my son', is the noun phrase, and the one part that can serve as subject.

Q, 'is not', is the finite verb with its negative, so it comes straight after the subject.

P, 'willing to go', is the adjective phrase that completes 'is not'.

S, 'camping', finishes the sentence, because go + -ing is the fixed pattern for activities: go camping, go swimming, go shopping.

RQPS reads 'My son is not willing to go camping' — option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
QRSP — Puts the finite verb is not first, so the sentence opens with no subject at all. 'Is not my son camping willing to go' is not a statement in English.
(b)
SPRQ — Opens with the bare camping and leaves 'is not' at the end with nothing to follow it, so the sentence never reaches a complement.
(c)
PQRS — Makes willing to go the subject of 'is not', giving 'Willing to go is not my son camping'. The adjective phrase cannot head the sentence here.

Concept

Part-jumble items are assembled by grammar, not by feel. Sort the four fragments by the job each one can do.

A noun phrase can be the subject, and here my son is the fragment that qualifies. A finite verb must follow it, which is is not. What remains attaches to that verb in order.

The last link is a collocation. Go takes an -ing form for leisure activities — go camping, go fishing, go shopping — so 'camping' sits after 'willing to go' and never before it.

Both P and S could look like sentence endings in isolation. The go + -ing pattern is what fixes their order, and it is the actual grammar point the item is testing.

Key facts

The assembled sentence is 'My son is not willing to go camping'.
English uses go plus an -ing form for activities, as in go camping, go swimming, go shopping.
'Willing' is followed by a to-infinitive, as in willing to go.

Study next

The go + -ing pattern for leisure activitiesAdjectives that take a to-infinitive: willing, eager, reluctant, ableOrdering jumbled parts by grammatical role rather than by meaning

Common traps

Building from the meaning first and putting 'camping' next to 'my son'.
Treating 'willing to go' as a subject because it can head a phrase elsewhere.
Missing that 'is not' has to sit immediately after the subject in a statement.

SSC labels the fragments P, Q, R and S and asks for the order, and the four offered arrangements are cut so that just one of them is grammatical.

The same four-part build is at 23 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.14 (keyed RPQS, 'fortune always favours only the bold') and at 25 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.1 (keyed SRQP).

English Q.10 of this paper runs the jumble with five parts labelled (a) to (e) instead, so count the labels before you start.

Related PYQs

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