English Sequence of Sentences Quiz Online Exercise Test

1. Find the right sequence of sentences with A being the first and Z being the last sentence of the passage.
A: Smoke oozed up between the planks.
P : Passengers were told to be ready to quit the ship.
Q : The rising gale fanned the smouldering fire.
R : Everyone now knew there was fire on board.
S : Flames broke out here and there.
Z: Most people bore the shock bravely.

2. Find correct sequence of sentences :

P: only five or six new ones
Q: to have been found, although
R: there are over 31,000 documented meteorites
S: are found every year

3. Find correct sequence of sentences :

P: quickly and effortlessly
Q: on the ability to recognize words
R: this being the case, it is generally believed
S: that proficient reading depends

4. Find correct sequence of sentences :

P: a strong stance
Q: She soon developed political
R: against slavery.
S: inclinations and took

5. Find the right sequence of sentences with A being the first and Z being the last sentence of the passage.
A: You know my wife, Madhavi, always urged me to give up smoking.
P : I really gave it up.
Q : And so When I went to jail I said to myself I really must give it up, if for no other reason than of being self-reliant.
R : When I emerged from jail, I wanted to tell her of my great triumph.
Z : But when I met her, there she was with a packet of cigarettes.: poor girl!.

6. Find correct sequence of sentences :

1. In-spite of an unprecedented boom in the market
P: and had to remain content
Q: the paper dealer could not
R: push up his sales
S: with the volume of sale lower than
6: what he had sold the previous year.

7. Find correct sequence of sentences :

P: play in New Jersey.
Q: other "New York" teams, the Jets and Giants,
R: in the state of New York as both
S: They are the only team to play

8. Find the right sequence of sentences with A being the first and Z being the last sentence of the passage.
A: In the middle of one side of the square sits the Chairman of the committee, the most important person in the room.
P : For a committee is not just a mere collection of individuals.
Q : On him rests much of the responsibility for the success or failure of the committee.
R : While this is happening we have an opportunity to get the 'feel' of this committe.
S : As the meeting opens, he runs briskly through a number of formalities.
Z: From the moment its members meet, it begins to have a sort nebulous life of its own.

9. Find the right sequence of sentences with A being the first and Z being the last sentence of the passage.
A: On vacation in Tangier, Morocco, my friend and I sat down at a street cafe.
P : At one point, he bent over with a big smile, showing me, a single gold tooth and a dingy fez.
Q : soon I felt the presence of someone standing alongside me.
R : But this one wouldn't budge.
S : We had been cautioned about beggars and were told to ignore them.
Z: Finally a man walked over to me and whispered, "Hey buddy this guy is your waiter and he wants your order"

10. Find correct sequence of sentences :

P: occur in the Earth's mesosphere
Q: about 40-60 miles
R: meteors, also called shooting stars,
S: at an altitude of

11. Find correct sequence of sentence :

P: youngsters in the cities and the villages
Q: The effect
R: of the cinema
S: on the school and college going is very bad

12. Find the right sequence of sentences with A being the first and Z being the last sentence of the passage.
A: Venice is a strange and beautiful city in the north of Italy.
P : There are about four hundred old stone bridges joining the island of Venice.
Q : In this city there are no motor cars, no horses, no buses.
R : These small islands are near one another.
S : It is not an island but a hundred and seventeen islands.
Z: This is because Venice has no streets.

13. Find correct sequence of sentences :

P: win four back-to-back conference championships,
Q: which they accomplished
R: between 1990 and 1993
S: they are the only NFL team to

14. Find the right sequence of sentences with A being the first and Z being the last sentence of the passage.
A: Ants eat worms, centipedes and spiders.
P : They are usually much quicker than the ant itself.
Q : Nevertheless, these animals do not make easy game for ants.
R : Besides, they have an extraordinary number of ways of escaping.
S : They also eat larvae and insect adults such as flies, moths and spring tails.
Z: Some jump, and some give out a pungent repellent substance.

15. Find correct sequence of sentences :

P: This being the case,
Q: it is generally believed that proficient reading depends
R: on the ability to recognize words
S: quickly and effortlessly