SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 26 September 2024, Shift 1 · English Comprehension · Question 13 of 100

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In the given question, a statement divided into different segments is given. Rearrange all the segments to form a coherent statement. O: that the Soviet army had liberated P: from the fascist forces came under Q: the east European countries R: the control of the USSR S: after the Second World War

(a)SROPQ
(b)SQOPR
(c)POSQR
(d)POQSR

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Rule: a relative clause stays next to the noun it modifies, and the main verb waits until that clause has closed.

S sets the time frame: after the Second World War.
Q gives the subject: the east European countries.
O opens the relative clause on that subject: that the Soviet army had liberated.

P is the hinge — from the fascist forces finishes the clause, and came under is the main verb, so R must follow immediately to complete it: the control of the USSR.

SQOPR → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
SROPQ — SROPQ puts R second, so the sentence reads after the Second World War the control of the USSR, and the main verb came under is then left with no subject.
(c)
POSQR — POSQR opens on P, which begins mid-clause with from the fascist forces and carries the main verb before any subject has been named.
(d)
POQSR — POQSR has the same broken opening as (c), and it also puts Q after O, so the relative clause arrives before the noun it is describing.

Concept

Segment rearrangement is a skeleton test: find the subject, find the main verb, and keep every modifier beside what it modifies.

The relative pronoun that is the loudest signal in this item. It has to follow a noun, so O cannot precede Q, and every option that separates them fails on that ground alone.

The second signal is the finite verb came under. It needs a subject already in place and an object straight after, which locks P before R.

The history in the sentence is the paper's own, and you do not need to know any of it. The item is graded on where the segments fit, not on whether the claim is right.

Key facts

A relative pronoun such as that or which must follow the noun it refers to.
The segment carrying the main verb needs its subject to have appeared earlier in the sentence.
A time adverbial like after the Second World War can open or close the sentence, but not sit between a noun and its relative clause.

Study next

Locating subject and main verb before ordering segmentsRelative clauses that interrupt the subject and delay the verbAdverbial phrases of time and their permitted positions

Common traps

Ordering the segments by the history rather than by the grammar.
Settling on option (a) because it opens with the same time phrase as the answer.
Missing that came under is the main verb and reading it as part of the relative clause.

SSC labels the segments O to S rather than 1 to 5, so read the labels carefully before you match a sequence.

Rearrangement also appears at English Q.11 of this 26 Sep 2024, 9:00 am sitting, in its four-sentence paragraph form.

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