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In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences.

S1: She was born into a poor family of laborers and died because poverty could not let her live. 

S6: So, while the world was celebrating International Women's Day, Rita's mother, Mrs. Veena, spent the day trying to get her daughter justice, which eluded her in life.

P: She died not because she was ill, but because she had been allegedly beaten by her husband and in-laws for not bringing insufficient dowry.

Q: At the young age of twenty, Rita breathed her last at JP Hospital in February 20.

R: Ironically, however, no one paid heed to Rita's woes when she said to cry for help.

S: The police have not taken any action either to date.

 The proper sequence should be

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Important Questions on Sequence of Sentences

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In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences.

S1 : We were so evenly matched that for a time the end was difficult to tell.

S6 : Then, his comrade's knife, thrown at me, struck him on the back and piercing it, quite finished him.

P : Already I was counting him a dead man and myself victorious.

Q : I had only to wear him out to have him at my mercy.

R : Presently, however, there came a change.

S : My opponent's wild living made him incapable of coping with a prolonged bout and his strength seemed to start ebbing away.

The proper sequence should be

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In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences.

S1: Isaac possessed a wonderful faculty of acquiring knowledge by the simplest means.

S6: Thus, even in his boyish sports, he was continually searching out the secrets of philosophy.

P: Yet nothing could be more simple.

Q: You will never guess how the boy could compel that unseen wonder, the wind to tell him the measure of its strength.

R: For instance, what methods do you suppose he took to find out the strength of the wind?

S: He jumped against the wind and by the length of the jump he could calculate the force of the wind.

The proper sequence should be

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In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences.

S1: The common man has a vote in Parliament.

S6: For that, his sole resource is his native wit and will.

P: If he likes to make use of the machinery of democracy, he can have questions asked in the house.

Q: But there is no machinery by which he can control the organs which mold opinion.

R: In the last resort he can destroy one government and make another.

S: He has a parliamentary representative whom he can badger and heckle.

The proper sequence should be

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In each of the questions below a number of sentences are given which are denoted by I, II, III and IV. By using all the sentences you have to frame a meaningful paragraph. The correct order of the sentences is your answer. Choose from the five alternatives and the one having the correct order is your answer.

I. Now under liberated economy they are learning to compete domestically and globally.

II. In India corporations until, recently achieved success by avoiding competition using protected and regulated domestic markets.

III. The trend is irreversible.

IV. Business leaders are preparing themselves to meet competitive challenges and to avoid being swept away.

Which one of the following sequences is correct?

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In each of the questions below a number of sentences are given which are denoted by I, II, III and IV. By using all the sentences you have to frame a meaningful paragraph. The correct order of the sentences is your answer. Choose from the five alternatives and the one having the correct order is your answer.

I. Recovery was given inadequate attention and consequently some bank branches regularly incurred heavy losses and their parent bodies had to bale them out.

II. As a result banks indulged in extensive lending to borrowers who had little or no potential to make repayments.

III. To fulfil the social objectives laid down by the masters of nationalisation banks were asked to lend to identify priority sectors.

IV. 1992-93 results showed that the loss making branches of public sector's banks increased from 10,000 to 13,000 and the quantum of losses showed at 3,369 crore.

Which one of the following sequences is correct?

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In each of the questions below a number of sentences are given which are denoted by I, II, III and IV. By using all the sentences you have to frame a meaningful paragraph. The correct order of the sentences is your answer. Choose from the five alternatives and the one having the correct order is your answer.

I. However different rulers and government dealt with the different groups in a compartmentalised manner.

II. Various situational political changes have taken place over the past three and half-centuries.

III. This tendency resulted in deeply embedded fragmented South-African society which became even more prominent in the period 1948 until the commencement of the new constitution on May 10, 1994.

IV. South Africa is a racially divided society since the first European settlers arrived in 1652.

Which one of the following sequences is correct?

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In each of the questions below a number of sentences are given which are denoted by I, II, III and IV. By using all the sentences you have to frame a meaningful paragraph. The correct order of the sentences is your answer. Choose from the five alternatives and the one having the correct order is your answer.

I. Such a system will help identify and groom executives for positions of strategists.

II. Evaluation of performance is more often than not done for the purpose of reward or punishment for past performance.

III. They must become an integral part of the executive evaluation system.

IV. Even where the evaluation system is for one's promotion to assume higher responsibilities it rarely includes items that are a key for playing the role of strategists effectivity e.g. the skills for playing the role of change agent and creative problem solving.

Which one of the following sequences is correct?

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In each of the questions below a number of sentences are given which are denoted by I, II, III and IV. By using all the sentences you have to frame a meaningful paragraph. The correct order of the sentences is your answer. Choose from the five alternatives and the one having the correct order is your answer. 

I. But categorisation schemes are not always helpful in determining what one can do with or about organisational culture.

II. Much of the literature on organisational culture is focussed on categorising types of cultures.

III. It has taken the understanding of corporate culture for beyond what use to be called 'the informal organisation'.

IV. This literature is both 'interesting and informative'.

Which one of the following sequences is correct?