List of top English Questions on Sentence Equivalence

Which two sentences convey the same idea?
1) Shouldn't they have checked your tickets?
2) I wonder if they should have checked your tickets.
3) I want to know if they checked your tickets.
4) They should have checked your tickets.
Arrange the following in the right order to make a complete sentence:
i. with interconnected vibrating balls and springs
ii. in a naive sense, a field in physics may be envisioned as if space were filled
iii. as the displacement of a ball from its rest position
iv. and the strength of the field can be visualized

The following is a scrambled sentence with the segments marked 1, 2, 3 and 4. Choose the alternative with the order of segments that best reconstructs the sentence.

  1. For all the padre's rhetoric about the English as God's Chosen People, the padre had a whole tribe of Anglo-Indian first cousins.
  2. Padre Rotton was an even more striking case.
  3. By various Indian wives, all of whom were at that moment engaged in fighting on the rebel side in Avadh, where they took an active part in besieging the British Residency in Lucknow.
  4. These included James Rotton who could not speak English and the twenty two Muslim sons of his convert cousin, Felix Rotton.

Which two sentences in the following convey the same idea?

  1. Wasn't there any checking at the airport?
  2. I want to know if there was any checking at the airport.
  3. I wonder if there should have been any checking at the airport.
  4. There should have been checking at the airport.