SSC CGL 2019 PYQ — Question 7

SSC CGL - 12th June 2019 - Shift 3 • English • Q7

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Selected the option that gives their correct order.

A. When we can't laugh at the same joke again, why should we cry over the same problems?

B. One day he told them a joke and everyone roared with laughter.

C. People came to a wise man to complain about the same problems every time.

D. When he repeated the joke twice, nobody laughed anymore.

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is option 4, i.e. CBDA.  

Concept/Grammar rules

Application

Sentence C will be the first sentence as it introduces the topic that is ‘the wise man’.

Sentence B will be followed then as it tells us about the joke. Sentence D will follow B as it tells the repetition of the joke which was mentioned in Statement B.

Further, sentence A will be next one as it further tells about that joke.

Hence, CBDA is the correct sequence.