Direction: The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of…

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Direction: The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.

P - On Tuesday, the Early Warning System (EWS) picked up the disturbance in the sea.

Q - On Wednesday, the Meteorological Department issued a public warning and alerted the media.

R - However, the cyclone did not reach the landmass, so no destruction was observed.

S - This disturbance hinted at the possibility of a low-pressure wind system which could turn into a cyclone

  1. A.

    PSQR

  2. B.

    SQPR

  3. C.

    QSPR

  4. D.

    PRQS

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Correct answer: A

A sentence-rearrangement (para-jumble) question is solved by tracking the connectors that bind one sentence to the next — an absolute time marker that must open the paragraph, a pronoun or demonstrative ('this', 'it') that can only follow the noun it refers back to, and a contrast or conclusion word ('however', 'therefore') that can only close the narrative once the event it responds to has already appeared.

  1. P carries the earliest absolute time marker, 'On Tuesday,' and is the sentence that first introduces 'the disturbance' — so it must open the paragraph.

  2. S opens with the pronoun 'This disturbance,' which can only refer back to the disturbance named in P, so S must come immediately after P.

  3. Q shifts the timeline forward to 'Wednesday' and reports the public warning that followed once the disturbance in S was seen as a possible cyclone, so Q continues the sequence after S.

  4. R opens with 'However' and reports the eventual outcome, so it can only be the concluding sentence, coming after the warning described in Q.

Any order that places 'This disturbance' before the disturbance is named, or the Wednesday warning before the Tuesday detection, or the 'However' conclusion before the event it contrasts, breaks one of these links.

Reading the sentences in this sequence gives P, S, Q, R — the order in option PSQR.

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