Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Select the option that arranges the parts in the correct sequence to form a meaningful sentence. (P) society benefits from diversity (Q) enriching cultures and (O) by fostering understanding and empathy (R) perspectives from around the world

Correct — B. One join settles the whole item.

Part (Q) reads enriching cultures and — it ends on a coordinating conjunction, so whatever follows Q must be the second half of that pair. Only (R) perspectives from around the world can be: cultures and perspectives.

So R has to come immediately after Q. Test the four orderings against that single requirement and only option (b), POQR, survives.

The reading confirms it. Society benefits from diversity by fostering understanding and empathy, enriching cultures and perspectives from around the world.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  QPRO — QPRO puts P straight after Q, so the trailing and would have to join cultures to a whole clause, society benefits from diversity. It also opens the sentence on a fragment ending in a conjunction.
• (c)
  ROQP — ROQP again lands P after Q, breaking the same pair, and it buries the only part with a subject and a finite verb at the very end of the sentence.
• (d)
  RPOQ — RPOQ leaves Q last, so the sentence ends on the word and with nothing after it to coordinate. A part closing on a conjunction can never be the final part.

Para-jumbles are solved by links, not by taste. A link is a word in one part that demands a particular neighbour.

The strongest are mechanical. A part ending in and, but or or demands the item it coordinates with. A pronoun demands its antecedent earlier. A dangling article or preposition demands its noun.

A second, weaker signal is the opener: the sentence needs a part carrying a subject and a finite verb, and here that is only (P) society benefits from diversity.

Note the labels. This item numbers its parts P, Q, O and R, using the letter O where a reader expects S.

Key facts

• A part ending in a coordinating conjunction must be followed directly by the item it coordinates with.
• A finite clause carries a subject and a tensed verb, while a participial phrase such as enriching cultures does not.
• The parts of this item are labelled P, Q, O and R, so the letter O is a part label and not a zero.

Common traps

• Reading each ordering in full and choosing by ear, which is slow and unreliable when three of them read almost fluently
• Misreading the part label O as a zero or as S and shuffling the letters when marking the answer

No directly related past PYQ was found.