Question

Arrange the parts to form a meaningful sentence :

Mother tongue is (P) for the development (Q) as natural (R) of man's mind (S) as mother's milk.

a)SRPQ
b)PQSR
c)SRQP
d)QSPR

Answer 1

Hint: A meaningful sentence must have the correct use of grammar, capitalization, and punctuation.

Complete answer:

In the given question, different parts of speech are used, with different uses of each. We have to choose and form the correct sentence to form a new sentence with the help of the given (P, Q, R, S) parts of the sentence. A meaningful sentence must consist of a proper subject and predicate. The sentence should also have the subject and the verb in the same tense. Here, the sentence is starting with "Mother’s tongue is-". First of all, we will find the subject of the sentence, to form the subject of the sentence, we will go through the given parts and see which one fits the best for it. Among all the given parts, part (Q) and (S), that is, "as natural", " as mother's milk", seems to be the correct subject for the given sentence. Now, to form the predicate, we'll go through the two left parts, which are (P) and (R), "for the development", "of man's mind", are suitable for the predicate of the sentence, and are also grammatically correct. All these parts, when joined together, make an error-free, meaningful sentence. Hence, the correct answer is, option d, QSPR. The sentence formed would be, "The mother tongue is as natural as mother's milk, for the development of a man's mind."

Note: Sometimes a word, other than a synonym, can be substituted for the unknown word, and the sentence still makes sense, the sentence is NOT a meaningful sentence.