In the following question, there are six parts marked S1, S6, P, Q, R, and S. The position of S1 and S6 are fixed. Some parts of the sentence have been jumbled up. Rearrange these parts and choose the proper sequence from the given options.
(S1) Once upon a time, there lived a farmer in a village, beside a forest.
(P) When the farmer was a little boy, he spent much of his time playing with the apple tree
(Q) Those days, the apple tree had given the choicest of apples to him
(R) However, as time passed, the apple tree became old and stopped bearing fruits
(S) He had a big garden that had an old apple tree and other plants, trees, and beautiful flowers
(S6) Now that the farmer was not getting any apples from the tree, he decided that the tree was useless and cut it.

Correct option is D

The correct sequence is SPQR.
S1 introduces the setting with the farmer’s big garden.
S continues by describing the old apple tree in the garden.
P takes us back to the farmer’s childhood playing with the apple tree.
Q mentions the choicest apples, followed by R, which describes how the tree became old and stopped bearing fruits, logically leading to S6