SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 19 September 2024, Shift 2 · English Comprehension · Question 3 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. all the plants and animals of today B. it is written that Brahma is the God of creation C. and it is He who has made D. in the book of Hindu mythology

(a)DBCA
(b)DACB
(c)CABD
(d)DCBA

Answer

Why

Correct — A. (D) in the book of Hindu mythology is only a prepositional phrase, so it cannot stand as a clause — it sets the scene and opens the sentence.

The main clause is (B) it is written that Brahma is the God of creation, where the anticipatory it needs exactly that that-clause.

(C) joins on with and, and its He can point back only to Brahma, named in B. has made is transitive, so (A) all the plants and animals of today follows as its object. DBCA is option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
DACB — DACB places (A) all the plants and animals of today straight after the opening phrase, which gives a noun phrase with no verb, and it leaves has made in (C) with nothing to act on.
(c)
CABD — CABD opens with the coordinator and. A coordinator joins a clause to something already stated, so it cannot begin the sentence.
(d)
DCBA — DCBA puts (C) before (B), so the pronoun He appears before Brahma is named. A pronoun must follow its antecedent.

Concept

The ordering signals in a parts-jumble are grammatical, and three of them decide most items.

A coordinator (and, but, so) cannot open a sentence, because it needs a first clause to join to.

A pronoun must come after the noun it stands for, which fixes B ahead of C here.

A transitive verb must be followed by its object, which pins (A) to the end behind has made.

Part (B) uses the anticipatory it: in it is written that ..., the real content sits in the that-clause, which is why B is a complete clause and (D) is not.

Key facts

A part beginning with and cannot open the sentence.
A pronoun such as He must appear after the noun it replaces.
In it is written that ..., the it is anticipatory and the that-clause carries the content.

Study next

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Common traps

Ordering by how the parts sound rather than by the pronoun and the coordinator.
Missing that has made in (C) is left without an object unless (A) follows it.
Treating the opening phrase (D) as a clause because it is long.

The same lettered parts-jumble is set at 9 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.3, where part (c) opens with and and carries the pronoun it — the two signals used here.

At 11 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.5 the format turns on a different signal: part (C) breaks off mid-phrase at the boss arrived at the, which forces meeting on time to follow it.

English Q.1 of this paper runs the format with a retirement sentence.

Related PYQs

No directly related past PYQ was found.