Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the parts in the correct order to form a meaningful sentence. P) once said Q) a wise man R) that action speaks S) louder than words

Correct — D. Build from the subject. Q) a wise man is an article plus noun with no verb of its own, so it opens the sentence and needs a verb after it.

P) once said supplies that verb and must sit directly behind its subject: 'A wise man once said'.

R) that action speaks is the clause said introduces, and S) louder than words completes the comparative inside it — speaks louder than words.

QPRS reads 'A wise man once said that action speaks louder than words' → option (d).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  SQPR — SQPR opens with 'louder than words', a comparative tail with nothing yet to compare — the word it measures, speaks, does not arrive until the end. That alone rules the order out.
• (b)
  QSRP — QSRP gives 'a wise man louder than words that action speaks once said' — the subject is followed by a comparative phrase instead of by its verb.
• (c)
  PQRS — PQRS puts the verb phrase 'once said' before its subject appears. English permits that inversion only in a quotation tag such as 'said a wise man' placed after the reported words.

Parts-jumble items are settled by grammar, not by sensing the meaning. Two anchors decide most sets.

First, find the part that can be the subject — a noun phrase carrying no verb. Here that is 'a wise man', and nothing else can start the sentence.

Second, find the part that must be attached to another. 'louder than words' is a comparative tail and cannot float; it has to sit against the word it compares, speaks. With the opening and the tail fixed, the middle usually has one legal arrangement left.

Key facts

• A comparative tail beginning with than must follow the word it compares.
• The conjunction that introduces the clause reported by said.
• A noun phrase with no finite verb is the natural candidate for the subject slot.

Common traps

• Assembling by meaning and accepting an order that reads roughly right but has no subject in front.
• Letting 'louder than words' open the sentence because the proverb is familiar.
• Missing that 'once said' is the main verb and cannot be separated from its subject.

No directly related past PYQ was found.