Question
1. There was a poor fisherman, who had a wife and three
children. P. One day, like always, he threw his net in the seawater. Q. After sometime when he tried to pull it out, he could not do so. R. He used to cast his net in seawater to catch fish for his livelihood. S. He had made a rule to cast his net only four times a day and never exceeded the set limit. 6. He was overjoyed thinking that some big fish fallen in his net and its heavy weight had made it difficult to pull the net. In the following question the 1st and the last part of the sentence/passage are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the sentence/ passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence/ passage and find out which of the four combinations is correct.Solution
Here, R is the continuation of the introduction and talks about what he used to do daily. So, it is the second sentence. S follows R. P says what he was doing a particular day and Q says what happened when he did it. So the correct order is RSPQ.
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