English Grammar ordering of sentences practice Set 1
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Directions: In the following items each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet
English Grammar Ordering Of Sentences questions and answers
Q1. Reorder the below given sentences
S1: One of the first things the learning of a new language teaches you is that language comes from the region of the unconscious.
S6: The test of how much you know is: how much can you say without having to think how you are going to say it?
P: What is often meant by “thinking in a language” is really the ability to use it without thinking about it.
Q: We grown-up people have to filter it through our minds — a much more laborious process.
R: That is why children learn a new language so effortlessly: it comes straight from their instincts.
S: But we cannot say that we know a language, or know what we have studied of it, until we can use it instinctively.
The proper sequence should be
(a) SQRP
(b) RPSQ
(c) PQSR
(d) RQSP
Q2. Reorder the below given sentences
S1 : The young traveler gazed out into the dismal country with a face of mingled repulsion and interest.
S6: He quickly restored it to his secret pocket.
P : At intervals he drew from his pocket a bulky letter to which he referred, and on the margins of which he scribbled some notes.
Q : It was a navy revolver of the largest size.
R : From the back of his waist he produced something which one would hardly have expected to find in the possession of so mild-mannered a man.
S : As he turned it slantwise to the light, the glint upon the rims of the copper shells within the drum showed that it was fully loaded.
The proper sequence should be
(a) PQRS
(b) RPQS
(c) QPRS
(d) PRQS
Q3. Reorder the below given sentences
S1 : Once upon a time there was a king who had a wonderfully nice garden.
S6: In the trees lived a nightingale that sang so sweetly that all who passed by stood still and listened.
P : In the middle of the garden there was a lovely forest with tall trees and deep lakes.
Q: In this garden were to be seen the most wonderful flowers with silver bells tied to them.
R: The garden was so large that even the gardener himself did not know where it began and where it ended.
S: These bells always sounded so that nobody should pass by without noticing the flowers.
The proper sequence should be
(a) QPRS
(b) SPQR
(c) QSRP
(d) QPSR
Q4. Reorder the below given sentences
S1 : Science has already conferred an immense boon on mankind by the growth of medicine.
S6 : The general death rate in 1948 (10.8) was the lowest ever recorded up to that date.
P : It has continued ever since and is still continuing.
Q : In the eighteenth century people expected most of their children to die before they were grown up.
R : In 1920 the infant mortality rate in England and Wales was 80 per thousand; in 1948 it was 34 per thousand.
S : Improvement began at the start of the nineteenth century, chiefly owing to vaccination.
The proper sequence should be
(a) RPQS
(b) QSPR
(c) SQRP
(d) PQSR
Q5. Reorder the below given sentences
S1 : Wordsworth knew the behavior of owls in the night better than most of us know the ways of black birds in day time.
S6: His great poetry owes much to the night.
P : Out of school there were no restrictions on the hours he kept.
Q : No poet ever had happier school-days.
R : He would skate by the light of the stars, snare woodcocks at dead of night, watch the sunrise after a long ramble.
S : Throughout life he was an in-veterate walker by night.
The proper sequence should be
(a) QPRS
(b) PSQR
(c) QRPS
(d) SQPR
Q6. Reorder the below given sentences
S1: For seventeen years she led a sheltered life in the convent.
S6: Two years later she left the Loreto Convent where she had spent many happy and useful years.
P: Her heart went out to the people living there.
Q: In 1946 she asked for permission to work in the slums.
R: Then one day, while she was returning from an errand, she saw the slums of Calcutta.
S: She felt she had found her second vocation, her real calling.
The proper sequence should be
(a) PRSQ
(b) RPSQ
(c) RPQS
(d) QRPS
Q7 . Reorder the below given sentences
S1 : Good memory is so common that we regard a man who does not possess it as eccentric.
S6: She wheeled away the perambulator, picturing to herself his terror when he would come out and find the baby gone.
P : I have heard of a father who, having offered to take the baby out in a perambulator, was tempted by the sunny morning to pause on his journey and slip into a public house for a glass of beer.
Q : A little later, his wife had to do some shopping which took her past the public house where to her horror, she discovered her sleeping baby.
R : Leaving the perambulator outside, he disappeared into the drink shop.
S : Indignant at her husband’s behavior, she decided to teach him a lesson.
The proper sequence should be
(a) PQRS
(b) PRQS
(c) PSQR
(d) PQSR
Q8 . Reorder the below given sentences
S1 : Human ways of life have steadily changed.
S6: Even if we try to do nothing, we cannot prevent change.
P : Ancient Egypt — Greece — the Roman Empire — the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages — the Renaissance — the age of modem science and of modem nations one has succeeded the other; the history has never stood still.
Q : About ten thousand years ago, man lived entirely by hunting.
R : A settled civilized life only began when agriculture was discovered.
S : From that time to this, civilization has always been changing.
The proper sequence should be
(a) QRSP
(b) QPSR
(c) QSRP
(d) PRSQ
Q9 . Reorder the below given sentences
S1 : In our youth we are apt to think that applause and publicity constitute success.
S6: So let us be initiated into the mysteries of maturity and be taught how to resist and spurn the lure of hollow shows.
P : The man who values the applause more than his own effort has not outgrown his youth.
Q : It is our achievement or work which wins lasting rewards.
R : But these are only the trappings, the ephemeral illusions.
S : One should concentrate on one’s work knowing that applause will come unsought. The proper sequence should be
(a) SRQP
(b) PSRQ
(c) QPSR
(d) RQPS
Q10 . Reorder the below given sentences
S1 : My office sent an urgent email asking me to return.
S6 : It was evening, before I could sit and write to my parents that I would be joining them soon.
P : I immediately replied requesting a few days of grace as I had to book the return passage, pack and attend sundry matters before winding up my establishment here.
Q : On the way, I went to the laundry and made sure I would get my clothes in time.
R : Then I rushed to the bank, collected all my money and made reservations for my return journey.
S : From the shop next to it, I bought a couple of trunks to dump my books and other odd articles so that I could send them away in advance.
The proper sequence should be
(a) PQRS
(b) PRQS
(c) PRSQ
(d) PSRQ
Answers for the ordering of sentences questions
Q1. (d) RQSP
Q2. (d) PRQS
Q3. (c) QSRP
Q4. (b) QSPR
Q5. (a) QPRS
Q6. (b) RPSQ
Q7. (b) PRQS
Q8. (a) QRSP
Q9. (d) RQPS
Q10. (b) PRQS
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