Paragraph Formation


Direction: Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences 1 and 6.

  1. 1. You must recognize your rights and stand up for them.
    A. You lose freedom of movement.
    B. If you do not, other people define your role for you, and you stop being yourself.
    C. You become the “encapsulated person” and pay the price for this with neurotic behavior.
    D. Your life space decreases.
    6. Many people have this difficulty because they don’t have a clear cut idea of what their rights are.









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    NA

    Correct Option: C

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  1. 1. Nevertheless, what is innovation?
    A. Is innovation an ongoing process?
    B. How do Indian companies achieve a grasp of it?
    C. Should companies strive for breakthrough developments, or should they focus on continuous improvement?
    D. Many believe that the latter is the key to sustained growth.
    6. Nestle, for instance, is an unabashed practitioner of continuous improvements in small measures and is quite cynical about revolutionary breakthroughs.









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    NA

    Correct Option: D

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Direction: In each question, there are five sentences. The sentence labelled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D and E, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.

  1. A. In 1789, the latter joined with the needy masses to defeat king, barons, and clergy.
    B. The French Revolution, mainly a political revolt, broke the power of the feudal order.
    C. They marched to triumph over lordly sloth, entail, privilege, superstition. France set creeds of the Enlightenment into its constitutions.
    D. No longer could a noble class hinder the growth of capital and the bourgeoisie (middle classes).
    E. The middle ranks then took the lead in a new social order.









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    NA

    Correct Option: B

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Direction: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from amongst the given choices so as to form a coherent paragraph.

  1. A. We tend to see the similarity within a category as being more important, and the similarity between different categories as being less important, that either actually is.
    B. Given a small amount of information about a person, we are ready to classify them as a member of a particular group, and then to infer all kinds of additional facts about them, as if all members of the group were the same in most respects.
    C. Our tendency to classify and label everything can lead us into the error of seeing the world as made up of only those categories for which we have names.
    D. Expecting too much of the descriptive power of languages is itself a serious cause of distorted thinking.









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    On arranging the correct paragraph formation as :-
    D shall be followed by C as C continues to talk about errors in thinking. This will be followed by B, which talks about our classification skills
    .....................

    Correct Option: A

    On arranging the correct paragraph formation as :-
    D shall be followed by C as C continues to talk about errors in thinking. This will be followed by B, which talks about our classification skills which has been emphasized in C.Thus , required sequence is D C B A .



Direction: In the following questions, the first and the last sentence are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of sentence/passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four sentence/passage are not given in their proper order, Read the sentence/passage and find out which of the four combinations is correct then find the correct Answer .

  1. 1. Vegetarianism promotes a natural way of life.
    P. A vegetarian's life-style is natural and healthy.
    Q. Despite its message of universal love and nonviolence, It has
    not spread.
    R. It is best cultivated in the mind.
    S. This may be because it is an inward looking habit.
    6. Food and health are closely related .









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    The second line of the paragraph will be Despite its message of universal love and nonviolence, It has not spread.

    Correct Option: A

    After rearranging the sentences the paragraph will be as below.
    Vegetarianism promotes a natural way of life.
    Despite its message of universal love and nonviolence, It has not spread.
    This may be because it is an inward looking habit.
    It is best cultivated in the mind.
    A vegetarian's life-style is natural and healthy.
    Food and health are closely related.