SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 18 September 2024, Shift 3 · English Comprehension · Question 4 of 98

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 10 September 2026.

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Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. Do you know where does she reside ?

(a)where she resides?
(b)where do she reside?
(c)where she reside?
(d)where does she resides?

Answer

Why

Correct — A. The wh-clause sits inside another clause, Do you know ..., so it is an embedded question, and an embedded question takes statement word order.

Rule: no inversion and no repeated auxiliary. The subject comes before the verb, and the tense is carried by the main verb itself.

That gives where she resides — subject she, then resides with its third-person singular -s, which is option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
where do she reside? — It keeps the auxiliary that an embedded question drops, and do cannot take the singular subject she in any case. Two separate faults, either one of them fatal.
(c)
where she reside? — The word order is right, but the verb has lost its third-person singular ending. With she, the present-tense verb must be resides.
(d)
where does she resides? — This keeps the inversion with does and then marks the tense twice, once on does and again on resides. A clause carries that -s once, never on both words.

Concept

A direct question inverts: Where does she reside? The auxiliary does comes before the subject, and the main verb stays bare.

Put that same question inside another sentence — Do you know ..., Tell me ..., I wonder ... — and the inversion is undone. The clause becomes an embedded question and behaves like a statement: where she resides.

The tense does not vanish, it moves. What does was carrying is now carried by the main verb, which is why reside becomes resides.

The sentence still ends in a question mark, because the whole sentence is a question — Do you know ...? It is the embedded clause alone that has statement shape, not the sentence wrapped around it.

Key facts

An embedded question uses statement word order, subject before verb.
The auxiliary do, does or did is not repeated inside an embedded question.
With a third-person singular subject the present-tense main verb takes -s, as in she resides.

Study next

Embedded questions after know, wonder, ask and tell meReported speech, where the same de-inversion happens alongside a tense shiftInversion after negative adverbs such as never and seldom, where it is required rather than banned

Common traps

Hearing the sentence as a question and keeping does, which is exactly what the paper prints.
Dropping does correctly and then forgetting to move the -s onto the main verb.

SSC sets this as a substitute-the-underlined-segment item, and here the three distractors are near-misses of one rule rather than three unrelated errors.

The same segment-substitution format runs in this shift at English Q.13, where the choice is between its and it is.

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