COHESION • SENTENCE SENSE
NDA English Cohesion & Sentence Sense
Learn how ideas connect across sentences and paragraphs. This area rewards logical reading: spotting the opening idea, following pronoun and connector clues, and identifying the sequence that makes a passage coherent.
Core skills to prepare
Ordering of WordsBuild grammatically and logically correct sentences from jumbled word groups.
Ordering of SentencesIdentify the opening sentence, linked pairs and the most natural paragraph sequence.
Connectors & TransitionsUse contrast, cause, result, addition, condition and sequence markers correctly.
Reference & FlowTrack pronouns, repeated ideas, examples and logical progression across a passage.
Clues that help in sentence ordering
- Look for a sentence that introduces the topic without depending on earlier information.
- Pair pronouns such as he, she, it, they, this, these with the noun or idea they refer to.
- Use connectors such as however, therefore, moreover, consequently to identify relationships.
- Keep cause before result and general statements before examples where the context demands it.
- Watch for chronology, comparison, contrast and repeated key words.
- Read the final sequence once as a complete paragraph to test natural flow.
Practice pathway
Ordering in PYQsStudy how NDA has tested ordering and sentence relationships in previous papers.Timed PracticeBuild speed in mixed papers where ordering competes with grammar and vocabulary questions.Grammar SupportUse clause structure, conjunctions and pronouns to strengthen sentence sense.Online PracticeApply the clues through active question solving.