Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. In order to buy that bicycle, he plans to win some prize money by teaching an illiterate person how to read and write.
B. He needs a bicycle to win the bicycle race which would help pay off his father’s debt.
C. The film ‘Douch’ is about a young Iranian village boy.
D. But the only illiterate person is a 90-year-old woman who is ill-tempered and doesn’t wish to learn anything.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. CBAD.
- Statement C is independent and introduces the theme of the paragraph "The film" hence, it will be the opening statement.
- Statement B starts with the pronoun "He" that is used for the noun "Boy" hence, B will follow C.
- Statement A starts with "in order to" that shows the purpose of statement B hence, it will follow B.
- Finally, D will come at the end of the statement.
- Now we have the final arrangement i.e. CBAD.
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 idea or theme of the paragraph 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.