SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 23 September 2024, Shift 2 · English Comprehension · Question 16 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. A. Only for themselves B. Is full of C. People who live D. The world

(a)BCAD
(b)ABCD
(c)DBAC
(d)DBCA

Answer

Why

Correct — D. Start from the finite verb. Is full of (B) needs a singular subject in front of it, and the world (D) is the one chunk that can supply it.

the world (D) — subject
is full of (B) — verb plus an adjective phrase ending in a preposition

people who live (C) — the noun that preposition demands, with its relative clause
only for themselves (A) — the phrase completing the verb live

That gives The world is full of people who live only for themselves — the order DBCA, option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
BCAD — BCAD opens on the verb is full of and parks the world at the end, so the sentence runs with no subject and the subject noun becomes a stray tail.
(b)
ABCD — ABCD begins with only for themselves, a phrase with no verb nearby to modify, and the reflexive themselves is then pointing back at nothing.
(c)
DBAC — DBAC puts only for themselves straight after full of, so a slot that requires a noun is filled by a prepositional phrase and people who live is left dangling.

Concept

Chunk jumbles are assembled by what each chunk demands next, not by what sounds pleasant.

Is full of ends in a preposition, and a preposition must be followed by a noun phrase — so whatever comes after B is a noun, which fixes C in place.

People who live carries a relative clause whose verb, live, is intransitive and wants an adverbial: for themselves. So A can only follow C.

Themselves is a reflexive pronoun and has to refer back to a noun already in its clause, which anchors A to people rather than to the world.

Every chunk here is printed with a capital letter, which removes the usual clue that the capitalised chunk opens the sentence. The order has to come from the grammar instead.

Key facts

A preposition such as of must be followed by a noun phrase, not by another prepositional phrase.
Full of is a fixed adjective and preposition pair, so full calls for of before the thing it is full of.
A reflexive pronoun refers back to a noun already present in the clause, here people.

Study next

Adjective and preposition collocations (full of, fond of, afraid of, keen on)Relative clauses introduced by who and the noun they modifyReflexive pronouns and the antecedents they must agree with

Common traps

Choosing ABCD because the labels are already in alphabetical order
Treating Only for themselves as an emphatic opener, which would need an inversion no option supplies
Attaching only for themselves to the world rather than to the people who live

SSC labels the chunks A to D and capitalises each one, so the sentence has to be built outward from the verb.

Compare 13 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.15 (smoking in your youth stunts the body and clouds the brain), which uses the same four-chunk frame.

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