Ordering of Words in a Sentence - Test-04

Ordering of Words in a Sentence
Directions: In the following items some parts of the sentence have been jumbled up. You are required to re-arrange these parts that are labeled P, Q, R and S to produce the correct sentence.

1. (1) At the end of the lecture
(P) for sparing their valuable time
(Q) the speaker thanked the audience
(R) and listening to him
(S) in coming to the meeting
(6) patiently

a. PSRQ

b. QPSR

c. RSPQ

d. SRQP

2. (1) Yesterday, I chanced to meet
(P) where he lived
(Q) and asked him
(R) now in his seventies
(S) an old acquaintance,
(6) and what he did for his living.

a. PSRQ

b. QPSR

c. RQPS

d. SRQP

3. (1) In the middle of the dark night,
(P) of a woman
(Q) by the shrill cry
(R) I was awakened
(S) who seemed to be wailing
(6) the death of someone close to her

a. PSRQ

b. QPSR

c. RQPS

d. SRQP

4. (1) O why
(P) creator shatter
(Q) should the great
(R) one of
(S) his most adorable
(6) works!

a. PRQS

b. QPRS

c. QPSR

d. RPQS

5. (P) when the artist had started
(Q) singing a popular song
(R) in chorus
(S) everyone in the audience joined

a. PQRS

b. PQSR

c. RPQS

d. RQPS

6. He reached his office at 10.00 a.m. and
(P) no sooner
(Q) than there was a huge explosion
(R) had he got out of the car
(S) and it went up in flames

a. PQRS

b. PRQS

c. RPQS

d. RPSQ

7. (1) The fact that
(P) go to the police
(Q) did not let him
(R) to speak the truth
(S) he was a murderer
(6) about the theft.

a. PRSQ

b. QSPR

c. RQSP

d. SQPR

8. (P) The management having agreed
(Q) the workers called off the strike
(R) to increase their wages
(S) and returned to work

a. PQRS

b. PRQS

c. RSQP

d. SPQR

9. (1) A political decision or policy
(P) ifjudged by its immediate results,
(Q) in the light of its '
(R) may seem to be very wise
(S) but may prove to be unsound
(6) ultimate consequences

a. RPQS

b. RPSQ

c. RQPS

d. SQPR

10. Without books
(P) no cultured society is possible
(Q) no fresh ideas are possible
(R) and
(S) without fresh ideas

a. PRSQ

b. QRSP

c. RSPQ

d. RSQP