Sentences of a paragraph are given below. While the first and the last…
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Sentences of a paragraph are given below. While the first and the last sentences (S1 and S6) are in the correct order, the sentences in between are jumbled. Arrange the middle sentences to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
S1) Unhappiness and discontent spring not only from poverty.
P) Man is a strange creature, fundamentally different from other animals.
Q) If they are left undeveloped and unsatisfied, he may have all the comforts which wealth can give, but will still feel that life is not worthwhile.
R) He has far horizons, invincible hopes, creative energies and spiritual powers.
S) What is missing in our age is the soul; there is nothing wrong with the body.
S6) We suffer from sickness of spirit and hence should discover our roots in the eternal.
Answer: A. PRQS — Concept: In a sentence-rearrangement problem, cohesion comes from antecedent-pronoun links and from the movement of the central idea. A pronoun must follow a…
- A.
PRQS
- B.
PRSQ
- C.
SPQR
- D.
SPRQ
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Correct answer: A
Concept: In a sentence-rearrangement problem, cohesion comes from antecedent-pronoun links and from the movement of the central idea. A pronoun must follow a sentence that supplies its referent, while the final movable sentence should connect naturally to the fixed conclusion.
Application:
P follows S1 because it introduces the new subject, ‘Man,’ and begins the explanation of a non-material source of discontent.
R follows P because its pronoun ‘He’ refers directly to ‘Man’ and lists the human capacities under discussion.
Q follows R because ‘they’ refers to the plural series ‘far horizons, invincible hopes, creative energies and spiritual powers.’
S follows Q because it summarizes the contrast between material comfort and spiritual dissatisfaction, then leads into S6’s ‘sickness of spirit.’
Cross-check: In S1–P–R–Q–S–S6, both pronoun links resolve backward without interruption, and the topic moves from material poverty to human capacities, then to spiritual lack and the fixed conclusion.
Result: The middle-sentence order is PRQS.