Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. There was the image of his wife when he parted from her to go to the fair.
B. He saw her as if she were present; he heard her speak and laugh.
C. He felt terribly unhappy, and all sort of images rose in his mind.
D. All that night Aksenov lay awake.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. DCAB
- The best way to go about such questions is to find the opening statement or pairs of sentences.
- Sentence D talks about Aksenov, which is the subject of the sentence, hence it will be an introductory sentence.
- Sentence D is followed by Sentence C. The pronoun he refers to the Aksenov which was mentioned in the opening sentence and tells us how he felt.
- Sentence C will be followed by Sentence A which talks about the image that was mentioned in the previous sentence.
- Sentence B is the conclusive sentence of the given paragraph.
The correct sentence is-
All that night Aksenov lay awake. He felt terribly unhappy, and all sorts of images rose in his mind. There was the image of his wife when he parted from her to go to the fair. He saw her as if she were present; he heard her speak and laugh.