Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. In December 2019, Typhoon Kammuri came to the Philippines.
B. They closed schools and evacuated hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.
C. Officials closed the international airport in the capital city of Manila for 12 hours.
D. It flooded streets and damaged many houses and power lines.
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. ADCB.
- Statement A is independent and defines the theme of the paragraph "Typhoon Kammuri" hence, it will be the opening statement.
- Statement D starts with the pronoun "It" that is being used for the noun "Typhoon Kammuri" hence, D will come after A.
- Statement C and B will come respectively as they show the effect of the "Typhoon Kammuri".
- Now we have the final arrangement i.e. ADCB.
The chosen option is the same as the final arrangement hence, it will be correct.
Some common rules that help while solving the Para Jumbles:-
- Read the paragraph carefully and try to comprehend the paragraph's idea or theme and eliminate the irrelevant options.
- Try to identify the opening (Independent statement) and closing statement (Concluding statement).
- Try to identify the mandatory pairs. Two sentences can be connected through various connectors.
- If a statement starts with Pronoun, find the noun for which the pronoun is used, both the statements containing noun and pronoun will form a pair respectively.