SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 19 September 2024, Shift 2 · English Comprehension · Question 1 of 99

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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) a lot (B) my daily routine (C) i have missed (D) since my retirement (E) at the workplace

(a)BEADC
(b)BACED
(c)CBEAD
(d)BADEC

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Only part (C) i have missed carries a subject and a finite verb, so the sentence has to start there. The three rejected orders all open with (B) my daily routine, a noun phrase with no verb to hold it up.

(E) at the workplace describes that routine, so B and E stay together as the object: my daily routine at the workplace. (A) a lot then measures the missing.

(D) since my retirement closes the sentence: since needs the present perfect have missed that (C) supplies. CBEAD is option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
BEADC — BEADC ends on (C) i have missed, stranding the finite verb after its own object, place phrase and adverbs. A declarative English sentence does not park the verb last.
(b)
BACED — BACED puts the degree adverb (A) a lot before the verb it measures, and it opens with the object rather than with a subject.
(d)
BADEC — BADEC again leaves (C) i have missed at the end, and it separates (E) at the workplace from the routine it describes.

Concept

A parts-jumble is decided by grammar, not by ear. Find the chunk that holds a subject and a finite verb — only that one can open a declarative sentence, and here it is (C) i have missed.

Every other part hangs off that verb, and each is placed by what it attaches to: at the workplace describes the routine, so it sits with it.

The time phrase also carries a tense signal. since + a point in time pairs with the present perfect, so since my retirement and have missed belong to the same sentence and the perfect must already be in place.

The paper prints the parts in lower case, including the pronoun i in part (C). Reproduce the order asked for, not the capitalisation.

Key facts

Only the part carrying a subject and a finite verb can begin a declarative sentence.
since followed by a point in time (since my retirement) requires the present perfect, not the simple past.
In CBEAD the phrase at the workplace stays beside my daily routine, the noun it describes.

Study next

Parajumbles: locating the subject-verb chunk before ordering anything elsePresent perfect with since and forOrder of adverbials after a verb and its object

Common traps

Working from the option strings instead of the parts, and picking the order that merely sounds familiar.
Reading (B) my daily routine as the subject when it is the object of missed.
Attaching since my retirement to the noun routine rather than to the verb have missed.

SSC sets the same lettered parts-jumble format at 9 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.3 and at 11 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.5.

The format returns at English Q.3 of this paper, arranged around a mythology sentence.

Related PYQs

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