The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. 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. S1: There isn’t a cricketer worth his salt who does not aspire for captaincy. S6: It is against this background that any emotions surrounding the captaincy should be viewed. P: Even parents are proud when their sons become the captain. Q: At the lower levels, it is the best player who gets to lead the team. R: In cricket, the greatest honour any player can get is the captaincy. S: Right from their school days, boys dream of leading the team. The proper sequence should be:

The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. 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. S1: There isn’t a cricketer worth his salt who does not aspire for captaincy. S6: It is against this background that any emotions surrounding the captaincy should be viewed. P: Even parents are proud when their sons become the captain. Q: At the lower levels, it is the best player who gets to lead the team. R: In cricket, the greatest honour any player can get is the captaincy. S: Right from their school days, boys dream of leading the team. The proper sequence should be: Correct Answer SRQP

The correct answer is "SRQP"

Key Points

  • While arranging the parts of the passage given in the options, we have to find some grammatical or contextual connections between them, so let’s find out.  
    • The first statement in the sequence should be the one that best connects with S1.
    • It should be a continuation or extension of S1.
    • From S1 and S6, it is clear that the passage is about cricket.
    • S follows S1 because it is adding information to the context by talking about every boy's dream of leading the team.
    • R follows S because it is adding more information to R by talking about the honour of getting the captaincy.
    • P is directly connected to S6 as P is talking about pride comes from captaincy.
  • Therefore, the sequence is 'S1SRQPS6.'
  • ​​Correct sequence:

S1: There isn’t a cricketer worth his salt who does not aspire for captaincy.

S: Right from their school days, boys dream of leading the team.

R: In cricket, the greatest honour any player can get is the captaincy.

Q: At the lower levels, it is the best player who gets to lead the team.

P: Even parents are proud when their sons become the captain.

S6: It is against this background that any emotions surrounding the captaincy should be viewed.

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  • Steps for solving Para Jumbles:
    • Clues include pronouns, like he, she, it, this, that, these, those; adverbs like formally, really; article a, an, and the; definers like actually, finally, another; connectors like but, yet, both, also and neither nor, or, however, nevertheless.
    • Now, with the help of clues, try to find out qualifier and qualified sentences, so that we can make pairs of qualified and qualifier sentences to eliminate the wrong choices given in the question.
    • After making pairs, start eliminating the wrong choices or options given in the question.
  • In case there is more than one choice, try to follow the sequence of sentences according to the occurrence of the events.  
     

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  • विकल्पों में दिए गए गद्यांश के भागों को व्यवस्थित करते समय, हमें उनके बीच कुछ व्याकरणिक या प्रासंगिक संबंध खोजने होंगे, तो आइए जानें।
    • अनुक्रम में पहला कथन वह होना चाहिए जो S1 के साथ सर्वोत्तम रूप से जुड़ता हो।
    • यह S1 की निरंतरता या विस्तार होना चाहिए।
    • S1 और S6 से, यह स्पष्ट है कि passage क्रिकेट के बारे में है।
    • S, S1 का अनुसरण करता है क्योंकि यह टीम का नेतृत्व करने के हर लड़के के सपने के बारे में बात करके संदर्भ में जानकारी जोड़ रहा है।
    • R, S का अनुसरण करता है क्योंकि वह कप्तानी प्राप्त करने के सम्मान के बारे में बात करके R में अधिक जानकारी जोड़ रहा है।
    • P सीधे S6 से जुड़ा है क्योंकि P गर्व की बात कर रहा है जो कप्तानी से आता है।
  • इसलिए, अनुक्रम 'S1SRQPS6' है।

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