SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 24 September 2025, Shift 2 · English Comprehension · Question 25 of 100

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Rearrange the following sentences in correct order to make a logical passage. 1. This ensures fairness and minimizes potential conflicts. 2. Conflict resolution is an essential skill in any workplace. 3. It involves active listening and seeking common ground. 4. Training in this area improves team dynamics.

(a)2-1-3-4
(b)2-3-1-4
(c)2-4-1-3
(d)3-4-2-1

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Sentence 2 names the topic, conflict resolution, and points back to nothing, so it opens.

It involves (3) needs its noun just before it: It = conflict resolution.
This ensures (1) sums up 3: active listening and seeking common ground are what ensure fairness.
Training in this area (4) points back to the skill and adds its payoff for teams, so it closes.

2-3-1-4 → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
2-1-3-4 — 2-1-3-4 puts 'This ensures fairness' straight after the topic, before any method is described. This then has no method to sum up, and It in 3 is pulled away from its noun.
(c)
2-4-1-3 — 2-4-1-3 jumps to training before saying what the skill involves, then ends on 'It involves', with It three sentences away from conflict resolution.
(d)
3-4-2-1 — 3-4-2-1 opens on It, a pronoun with nothing before it to stand for. The topic has to be named before a pronoun can point to it.

Concept

When a jumbled set carries It, This and 'this area', the pronouns build the order. The sentence that names the subject and points back to nothing opens.

Then place each pointer straight after what it stands for: It after the noun it replaces, This after the idea it sums up, and 'this area' once the topic is established.

Key facts

Sentence 2 names conflict resolution and points back to nothing, so it opens.
It in sentence 3 replaces conflict resolution and must sit next to sentence 2.
This in sentence 1 sums up a whole idea: active listening and seeking common ground.

Study next

Pronoun chains (It, This, These) in sentence orderingDemonstratives that sum up a whole clause: this, such, thatOpening-sentence tests: which sentence can stand first

Common traps

Putting This ensures fairness (1) straight after the topic because fairness sounds like the headline benefit.
Opening with 3 because It involves reads like a definition, without asking what It stands for.

18 Sep 2025, 09:00, English Q.25 on crop rotation has the same shape and the same key, 2-3-1-4: topic, It involves, This helps, then It also.

23 Sep 2025, 16:00, English Q.25 on cloud computing runs topic, It, This, then this technology, also keyed 2-3-1-4.

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