SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 26 September 2024, Shift 3 · English Comprehension · Question 6 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) to become severely seasick (B) a world tour, but he was (C) a nervous flyer and tended (D) he wanted to go on

(a)DBCA
(b)ADBC
(c)CADB
(d)BADC

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Rule: find the part that can stand first, then follow the grammatical hooks.

(D) he wanted to go on is the only part beginning with a subject, so the sentence opens there.

go on needs an object, and (B) supplies it: a world tour. (B) then ends on but he was, an incomplete clause needing a complement, which (C) a nervous flyer and tended provides.

tended demands a to-infinitive, and (A) to become severely seasick is the part that begins with to.

DBCA reads: he wanted to go on a world tour, but he was a nervous flyer and tended to become severely seasick — option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
ADBC — ADBC opens with (A) to become severely seasick, a to-infinitive with no subject before it. It also ends on tended, leaving that verb with no infinitive to complete it.
(c)
CADB — CADB ends on (B) a world tour, but he was, so the sentence stops mid-clause with but he was hanging. It also opens with a nervous flyer, a description with no subject yet named.
(d)
BADC — BADC opens with (B) a world tour, a bare noun phrase with no verb in front of it, and it closes on tended in (C), separated from the to-infinitive in (A) that must follow it.

Concept

Part-jumble items are settled by joins, not by story. Hunt for hooks: an incomplete clause, a verb waiting for its object, a verb that demands a particular complement.

Three hooks decide this one. go on needs an object, but he was needs a complement, and tended needs a to-infinitive.

Start from the part that can open — the one beginning with a subject — then let each hook pull the next part into place. Reading all four options end to end is slower and easier to misjudge.

The sentence's own joke, a nervous flyer who is also seasick so that neither plane nor ship will serve, only lands in the DBCA order. If your arrangement does not read as one joined-up thought, it is wrong.

Key facts

The verb tend is followed by a to-infinitive: tended to become.
The phrasal verb go on takes an object, here a world tour.
A part beginning with to cannot open a sentence that has supplied no subject.

Study next

Locating the opening part by looking for a subject with a finite verbVerb complement patterns that fix word order, such as tend to and refuse toCoordinating conjunctions left inside a part, which tell you what must come before it

Common traps

Sequencing by meaning alone and ignoring the incomplete clause but he was
Letting an option that reads well for its first two parts decide the whole order
Opening with the part that begins with to, which no arrangement here allows

SSC labels four or five fragments and asks for the joined sentence, and the fragments are cut so that a verb and its complement land in different parts.

The same frame runs at 11 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.7 (five parts, keyed ACEBD) and 09 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.3.

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