Sentence Rearrangement for IBPS PO / CLERK
Directions (Q. 1-5): Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) to make a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions that follow:
- (A) However, while reading, they would not know when to pause and what to emphasise.
- (B) Since then, their use has been regularised and the punctuation rules have been followed by all.
- (C) In earlier days, people learnt by reading out loud.
- (D) But not everybody used the same punctuations for the same thing.
- (E) To address this problem, various signs depicting various punctuations were introduced.
- (F) Thus, firmer guidelines regarding punctuations were framed so that everyone used them in a similar way.
1. Which of the following sentences should be the SECOND after rearrangement?
1) A
2) B
3) D
4) E
5) F
2. Which of the following sentences should be the THIRD after rearrangement?
1) A
2) E
3) D
4) F
5) C
3. Which of the following sentences should be the FIFTH after rearrangement ?
1) B
2) C
3) A
4) E
5) F
4. Which of the following sentences should be the SIXTH (LAST) after rearrangement ?
1) C
2) E
3) D
4) B
5) F
5. Which of the following sentences should be the FIRST after rearrangement?
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
5) E
Directions (Q. 6-10): Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.
- (A) Even after decades of such emphasis, there are large segments of the society outside the financial system.
- (B) The Self Help Group (SHG) movement in India has enabled social and economic inclusion of women.
- (C) By financial inclusion, we mean the provision of affordable financial services, viz, access to payments and remittance facilities, savings, loans and insurance services by the formal financial system to those who tend to be excluded.
- (D) Simultaneously, the growth of the NGO and the self-help groups has been significant and their linkage with banks has facilitated a greater financial inclusion.
- (E) It is important to recognise that, in the policy framework for development of the formal financial system in India, the need for financial inclusion covering more and more of the excluded population by the formal financial system has always been consciously emphasised.
- (F) The SHG-bank linkage movement where SHGs are linked to banks in a gradual way – initially through savings and later through loan products – has been able to ensure financial inclusion to a certain extent.
6. Which of the following would be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D
5) E
7. Which of the following would be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
1) E
2) B
3) C
4) A
5) D
8. Which of the following would be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
1) C
2) E
3) F
4) A
5) B
9. Which of the following would be the LAST (SIXTH) sentence after rearrangement?
1) D
2) F
3) B
4) E
5) A
10. Which of the following would be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?
1) F
2) A
3) E
4) B
5) D
Answers:
(1-5): CAEDFB
- 1. 1
- 2. 2
- 3. 5
- 4. 4
- 5. 3
(6-10); CEADBF
- 6. 3
- 7. 1
- 8. 4
- 9. 2
- 10. 5
