SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 23 September 2024, Shift 2 · English Comprehension · Question 12 of 100

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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. O. want P. movie tonight Q. do you R. to watch S. the

(a)OSPQR
(b)RSPQO
(c)OSQPR
(d)QORSP

Answer

Why

Correct — D. The sentence is a yes/no question, so it has to open with an inverted auxiliary, and Q (do you) is the one chunk able to start it.

do you (Q) — auxiliary plus subject
want (O) — the main verb, which follows do

to watch (R) — the to-infinitive that want demands
the (S) then movie tonight (P) — article, then its noun with the time word

Read out, that is Do you want to watch the movie tonight? — the order QORSP, option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
OSPQR — OSPQR reads want the movie tonight do you to watch. The auxiliary lands mid-string, so the question never gets the opening inversion an interrogative needs.
(b)
RSPQO — RSPQO opens on the infinitive to watch the movie tonight and only then adds do you want, leaving the clause with no subject standing before its verb.
(c)
OSQPR — OSQPR gives want the do you movie tonight to watch. It splits the article the from movie and strands the infinitive after the time word.

Concept

Part jumbles are solved by structure, not by ear. Decide what kind of sentence you are building before you move anything.

This one is a question, so the frame is auxiliary + subject + main verb: do you want. English needs that do because want is a lexical verb and cannot invert on its own.

After that the chain is forced. Want takes a to-infinitive, the infinitive to watch needs its object, and a bare time adverb such as tonight closes the clause.

Once you know which chunk opens the sentence, the other three options can be discarded without assembling them, because each of them starts somewhere else.

Key facts

A yes/no question with a lexical main verb needs do-support: Do you want ...?, not You want ...?
Want is followed by a to-infinitive (want to watch), never by a bare infinitive.
A determiner such as the stands immediately before its noun, so the and movie cannot be separated.

Study next

Do-support and inversion in yes/no questions and wh-questionsVerbs taking a to-infinitive complement (want, hope, decide, agree, refuse)Where time adverbs sit in an English clause

Common traps

Assembling the chunks into a statement (you want to watch...) and then finding no option matches
Ordering by the labels O, P, Q, R, S instead of by grammar
Attaching the article to the wrong noun when two nouns are available

SSC gives four or five labelled chunks and asks for the permutation that makes one sentence.

A structurally identical item — same five chunks, same QORSP answer — is asked at 12 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.14 (we went to the park yesterday), and part jumbles run again at 23 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.14 and Q.16.

Related PYQs

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