1000+ Sentence Rearrangement Questions for SSC MTS Exam - 1

Question: 1

You are required to rearrange these parts, which are labelled P, Q, R and S to produce the correct sentence.
S₁. The Hound of Baskervilles was feared by the people of the area.
S₆. The Hound of Baskervilles remains an unsolved mystery.
P : Some people spoke of seeing a huge, shadowy form of a hound at midnight on the moor.
Q : But they spoke of it in tones of horror.
R : Nobody had actually seen the hound.
S : This shadowy form did not reveal any details about the animal.

(A) PSRQ

(B) SPQR

(C) SPRQ

(D) PQRS

Question: 2

You are required to rearrange these parts, which are labelled P, Q, R and S to produce the correct sentence.
S₁. Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death.
S₆. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea and painlessly lose their individual being.
P : An individual human existence should be like a rive small at first should be like a river-small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls.
Q : In the young there is a justification for this feeling.
R : Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best thing that life has to offer.
S : But in the old man who has known human joys and sorrows, the fear of death is somewhat object and ignoble, and the best way to overcome it is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal.

(A) RSQP

(B) QRSP

(C) QPSR

(D) PQSR

Question: 3

You are required to rearrange these parts, which are labelled P, Q, R and S to produce the correct sentence.
S₁. Useful human beings are divided into two classes : those whose work is work and pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.
S₆ : For them the working hours are never long enough.
P : The long hours in the office or factory give them keen appetite for pleasure even in its most modest forms.
Q : Their life is a natural harmony.
R : Of these the former are in majority.
S : But Fortune’s favoured children belong to the second class.

(A) RPSQ

(B) SQPR

(C) QPRS

(D) PSQR

Question: 4

You are required to rearrange these parts, which are labelled P, Q, R and S to produce the correct sentence.
S₁. Jawaharlal Nehru was born on November 14.
P : He loved children.
Q : On this day, children take part in many activities.
R : Sports, music, drama and debates are arranged in schools.
S : That is why his birthday is celebrated as Children’s Day.
S₆. Exhibitions of photographs of Pandit Nehru showing his life time are also arranged in some schools.

(A) PQRS

(B) PSQR

(C) QPSR

(D) SPQR

Question: 5

You are required to rearrange these parts, which are labelled P, Q, R and S to produce the correct sentence.
S₁. In a good many cases unnecessary timidity makes the trouble worse than it need be.
S₆. If you hold in Delhi the views that are conventional in Delhi, you much accept the consequence.
P : I am not, of course, thinking of extreme forms of defiance.
Q : If you show that you are afraid of them, you give promise of good hunting, whereas if you show indifference, they begin to doubt their own power and therefore, tend to let you alone.
R : A dog will bark more loudly and bite more easily when people are afraid of him than when they treat him with contempt and the human herd has something of this same characteristic.
S : Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

(A) RSPQ

(B) SRPQ

(C) SRQP

(D) QPRS