UPSC 2013 CDS 2 English Paper

‘Q’ will be the first part of the given sequence as the verb needsto come as per subject-verb agreement, that is, ‘does notconsist’. ‘P’ will come next as it begins with the word, ‘like’ andpresents an analogy to the previous part of the sentence. ‘R’ will come next as it begins with the word, ‘so’ and takes the comparison forward which was started in ‘Q’. ‘S’ will come at the end as it presents an example for the point stated in theprevious part just like ‘Q’ and ‘P’. Hence, QPRS is the correctsequence. Thus, option (a) is correct.