S1 On 5th October 1818 when young Lincoln was approaching his tenth year his mother Nancy died of fe...........

English Language (Defence) Parajumbles

ORDERING OF SENTENCES

Directions: in this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S I and 56. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1 : On 5th October 1818, when young Lincoln was approaching his tenth year, his mother Nancy died of fever.

S6 : His total education at school comprised only about a year during which he, however, managed to master reading, writing, spelling and some arithmetic.

P : She was illiterate, but she brought with her several books, among which were Pilgrim's Progress, Sindbad the Sailor, Robinson Crusoe and Aesop's Fables.

Q : Lincoln always acknowledged this moral and intellectual debt to his step mother.

R : The following year, his father married Sarah Bush Johnson, a widow with three children.

S : These books provided Lincoln with a mass of knowledge.

The proper sequence should be:

R P Q S

P S R Q

R P S Q

P S Q R

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Explanation:

‘R’ will be the first part of the given sequence as ‘the followingyear’ shows that the reference is made in succession to the year ‘1818’ mentioned in the opening part of the given passage. ‘P’ will come next as the pronoun ‘she’ is used in the context of ‘Sarah Bush Johnson’. ‘S’ will come next as thephrase ‘these books’ is used in the context of ‘several books’ in ‘P’. ‘Q’ will follow next as the phrase ‘this moral and intellectual debt’ is used in the context of ‘a mass of knowledge’ in ‘S’. Hence, RPSQ is the correct sequence. Thus, option (3) is correct.