Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. The home then was a bungalow, single storied and bounded by walls.
B. He states that in the early 1950’s houses in most cities relied on the bungalow model.
C. According to Gautam Bhatia, a leading architect we need to bring about a radical change in our model of housing.
D. Sadly, nearly 70 years later after a 100-fold increase in city population, density and land value we still persist on the same outmoded model
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. CBAD
Sentence ‘C’ is clearly the opening sentence, since it introduces the topic of the paragraph that is 'Model ofhousing'. Sentence B will follow it as the pronoun 'He' is used in it for "Gautam Bhatia" also it tells about what he stated, 'He states that in the early 1950’s houses in most cities...'.
Sentence A will follow it: 'then' is used here to signify the thing happened in 1950's (Mentioned in previous sentence).
The concluding sentence is sentence D as it talks about the present condition of the model.
The Correct paragraph formed will be:-
According to Gautam Bhatia ,a leading architect we need to bring about a radical change in our model of housing. He states that in the early 1950’s houses in most cities relied on the bungalow model.The home then was a bungalow, single storied and bounded by walls. Sadly ,nearly 70years later after a 100-fold increase in city population, density and land value we still persist on the same outmoded model.