Language

Session # 05

Para-Formations

Question Pattern
Four Sentences (A,B,C,D)
Five Sentences (A,B,C,D,E)
Six Sentences (A,B,C,D,E,F)
Four of Six Sentences
(A,1,2,3,4,B)

The Logic behind the Question

Checks your grasp on Written
Communication
Can you arrange ideas in a sequential
manner as per conventions of standard
Writing

 The logic could be of many forms. For e.g.

Time of occurrence. Words and phrases
like In the beginning, At the outset,
Later on, Finally, Subsequently
each convey some meaning and give a
clue as to which sentence should
precede or follow others.
Ideas. Some things, as a matter of
course happen before others. We need
to respect this sequence and derive the
answer accordingly.

A. With that, I swallowed the shampoo and

obtained the most realistic results almost on
the spot.
B. The man shuffled away into the back regions
to make up a prescription and after a moment I
got through on the shop telephone to the
Consulate, intimating my location.
C. Then while the pharmacist was wrapping up a
six-ounce bottle of the mixture, I groaned and
enquired whether he could give me something
for acute gastric cramp.
D. I intended to stage a sharp gastric attack and
entering an old-fashioned pharmacy I asked
for a popular shampoo mixture, consisting of
olive oil and flaked soap.

1. Very obviously, I need to start with D as

it mentions the intention to do
something.
2. Also C, in which the pharmacist is
wrapping a bottle of the mixture has to
follow D in which I have asked for the
mixture
3. Moreover, B in which the man has gone
away to make up a prescription has to
follow C in which I have cooked up the
gastric cramp
I hope you are getting the flow of IDEAS!!

Some thumb rules that help

Words like:
Also, But, Nevertheless, Hence,
Therefore

Sentences conveying the same idea

Sentences containing references to
the same (proper or common) noun
Pronouns like:
He, They, Those, These, It

A. He was bone-weary and soul-weary and found

himself muttering, Either I cant manage this
place, or its unmanageable.
B. To his horror, he realized that he had become the
victim of an amorphous, unwitting, unconscious
conspiracy to immerse him in routine work that
had no significance.
C. It was one of those nights in the office when the
office clock was moving towards four in the
morning and Benis was still not through with the
incredible mass of paper stacked before him.
D. He reached for his calendar and ran his eyes down
each hour, half hour and quarter hour, to see
where his time had gone that day, the day before,
the month before.

1. Very obviously, I cannot start with A, B or D

as they contain pronouns He, His and He
respectively, without any hint as to who
these pronouns refer to.
2. By default then, C becomes my opening
sentence.
3. The horrific realization of B can happen
only when he has done the check
mentioned in D. This gives us the pair D-B

From the options, we can now EASILY find the

answers.

Let us now proceed

with the Exercise in
the Language
Development Booklet.