SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 18 September 2024, Shift 3 · English Comprehension · Question 15 of 98

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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. A: new facts and advanced B: but my opinion is C: he has discovered D: unchanged E: new arguments

(a)BDAEC
(b)EBDCA
(c)DACBE
(d)CAEBD

Answer

Why

Correct — D. Two parts carry a subject: C, 'he has discovered', and B, 'but my opinion is'. B opens with but, a coordinator, so C has to start the sentence.

'Discovered' needs an object — A gives it. The 'and' inside A introduces a second participle, advanced, which needs an object of its own: E, 'new arguments'.

B's 'is' then hangs until D supplies the complement unchanged.

CAEBD reads 'He has discovered new facts and advanced new arguments but my opinion is unchanged' — option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
BDAEC — BDAEC opens on but, so the sentence begins with a contrast to nothing, and it ends on 'he has discovered' with no object in sight.
(b)
EBDCA — EBDCA opens with the bare fragment new arguments and closes on 'advanced', a transitive participle stranded without an object.
(c)
DACBE — DACBE begins with the lone adjective unchanged, which has no subject to attach to, and it strands 'my opinion is' away from its complement.

Concept

A part-level jumble is solved by grammatical dependency, not by meaning. Each fragment ends with something that demands a particular continuation.

A transitive verb demands an object. A linking verb such as 'is' demands a complement. A coordinator such as 'but' demands a clause in front of it.

Chain those demands and the order falls out on its own: C wants an object, A ends on a second verb that also wants one, E is the sole noun phrase left to give it, and B's 'is' waits for D.

'Advanced' in part A is a verb, not an adjective modifying 'facts' — spotting that is what makes the chain from A to E visible.

Key facts

A coordinating conjunction such as but joins two clauses and cannot open the sentence in this format.
A linking verb is incomplete until its complement arrives — here 'is' waits for unchanged.
Advance used transitively means to put forward an argument, a claim or a proposal.

Study next

Part-jumbles anchored on a conjunction: but, and, because, althoughFinding the subject and verb core before ordering the modifiersTransitive and intransitive uses of the same verb

Common traps

Ordering the parts by what sounds meaningful instead of by what each fragment grammatically demands
Taking 'advanced' in part A as an adjective, which breaks the link to part E

SSC prints the parts under letters and offers four complete orders, so eliminating on the opening part is faster than assembling the whole sentence — also asked 18 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.2 and 26 Sep 2024, 16:00, English Q.6.

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