Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. Their prestige and glory spread far and wide.
B. The first Olympics were held at Olympia in Greece in 776 B.C.
C. It was because the Christians believed that they encouraged pagan worship in temples.
D. However, with the advent of Christianity, the games lost their importance.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. BADC.
- Statement B is independent and defines the theme of the paragraph "Olympics" hence, it will be the opening statement.
- Statement A starts with the pronoun "Their" that is being used for "Olympics" hence, it will come after B.
- Statement C gives the reason behind games losing their importance hence, C will come after D.
- Now we have the final arrangement i.e. BADC.
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.