SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 9 September 2024, Shift 3 · English Comprehension · Question 7 of 100

Text as printed on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; answer per SSC's tentative key as marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 6 September 2026.

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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. P. having the opportunity of observing people’s Q. we respect and appreciate their point of views R. the advantage of travelling different places and S. culture, custom and lifestyle, is that

(a)SQPR
(b)PSQR
(c)RQPS
(d)RPSQ

Answer

Why

Correct — D. Find the subject first. Only R — the advantage of travelling different places and — can open the sentence, and the and it ends on promises a second phrase.

P supplies that phrase, and P breaks off on the possessive people's, which has nothing to own until S delivers culture, custom and lifestyle.

S then carries the main verb, is that, and a that-clause needs a full clause after it, which is Q. R-P-S-Q, option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
SQPR — SQPR opens on culture, custom and lifestyle, is that, a fragment with no subject, and strands R — the part carrying the subject — at the very end.
(b)
PSQR — PSQR begins with the gerund having, which has nothing to attach to, and again pushes R to the end, so the sentence closes on the word and.
(c)
RQPS — RQPS runs Q straight after R with no verb between them and finishes on is that, leaving the that-clause with nothing to introduce.

Concept

Para-jumbles are solved by links between parts, not by the sense of the sentence.

Three links settle this one. A possessive left dangling (people's) demands the noun it owns. A coordinator (and) ending a part demands the phrase it joins. A that introducing a complement demands a full clause.

Then check the spine: the advantage ... is that ..., a subject, a verb and a complement clause, with everything else packed inside the subject.

The parts are reproduced as the paper prints them, including point of views for points of view. A grammatical wobble inside a part is not a reason to reorder it — the links between parts decide the sequence.

Key facts

A part ending in and or but must be followed by the phrase it coordinates.
A possessive ending a part (people's) has to be completed by the noun that follows it.
The spine here is the advantage ... is that ..., so the main verb sits in a middle part rather than the first.

Study next

Tests for the opening part (carries the subject, no pronoun, no connector)Complement clauses after is that and the fact thatCoordination and parallel phrases split across jumbled parts

Common traps

Starting with P because having reads like a natural sentence opening.
Ordering the parts by story sense instead of by the grammatical links between them.
Missing that S holds the main verb, which fixes S in the middle and not at the start.

SSC labels the parts P-Q-R-S, O-P-Q-R-S or a-b-c-d-e and offers four orderings of the same fragments. 9 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.3 (adebc) and Q.11 (POQRS) are the same item in the other two labelling styles.

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