SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 25 September 2024, Shift 2 · English Comprehension · Question 17 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) the Industrial Revolution denotes (b) and continued until the middle of the 19 th century (c) a significant period of social, economic and technological revolution (d) that commenced in the latter part of the 18 th century

(a)dcba
(b)cadb
(c)abcd
(d)acdb

Answer

Why

Correct — D. Only part (a) has a subject and a finite verb — 'the Industrial Revolution denotes' — so the sentence has to open with it.

Denotes is transitive and needs an object, which part (c) supplies: 'a significant period of social, economic and technological revolution'.

Part (d) begins with the relative pronoun that, which attaches to that period. Part (b) begins with and continued, coordinating with commenced in part (d), so it comes last.

a-c-d-b → option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
dcba — dcba opens with that commenced, a relative clause whose antecedent has not yet been named. A sentence cannot begin with that pointing at nothing.
(b)
cadb — cadb puts the object before the subject, giving 'a significant period ... the Industrial Revolution denotes'. The verb is then left with nothing to govern.
(c)
abcd — abcd places and continued before the commenced it coordinates with, which reverses the chronology and leaves and with no earlier verb to join.

Concept

Jumbled-parts items are solved by grammar first and sequence second.

Find the part that can begin a sentence: it needs a subject and a finite verb, and it must not open with a conjunction or a relative pronoun. Here only part (a) qualifies.

Then follow the links. A transitive verb pulls its object, a relative pronoun attaches to the noun immediately before it, and and joins a verb to another verb of the same kind — commenced to continued.

The dates confirm what grammar has already settled: the latter part of the 18th century precedes the middle of the 19th.

You never have to build the whole sentence. Fixing part (a) as the opener removes dcba and cadb at once, and the object test on denotes then separates the two survivors.

Key facts

A part beginning with a relative pronoun such as that cannot open the sentence.
A transitive verb such as denotes must be followed by its object.
The conjunction and joins a verb to a matching verb, so and continued has to follow commenced.

Study next

Identifying the opening part of a jumble by subject and finite verbRelative clauses with that and the noun they must sit besideCoordination with and, where the two joined verbs must match in form

Common traps

Choosing an order that reads smoothly aloud without checking that its first part can start a sentence
Attaching the relative clause that commenced to the wrong noun
Starting with the definition because it sounds like an opening line, when it is the object of denotes

SSC letters the parts and makes the options letter strings, so you are choosing an order rather than a sentence.

The same jumbled-parts item is asked on 09 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.3, where five parts resolve to adebc, and on 12 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.7, where six parts resolve to BDAFEC.

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