2015 · Q65
if I had met him in the street (P) and not waited to ask him (Q) why he had written me an insulting letter (R) I would have knocked him down (S)
The proper sequence should be :
EnglishOrdering of Words in a Sentence
- AP S Q R
- BP Q R S
- CS Q R P
- DR S Q P
Explanation
The proper order is P-S-Q-R, option (a). The full sentence is: ‘I was so angry that if I had met him in the street, I would have knocked him down, and not waited to ask him why he had written me an insulting letter’. P and S form the conditional pair. ‘And not waited’ links Q to S. R (‘why …’) completes ‘ask him’ in Q.