Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. Only the fittest creatures can survive while competing for food.
B. Why do some species survive and others become extinct?
C. His answer was that there is a ceaseless struggle for life among all creatures.
D. This was the question that Darwin asked himself.
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. BDCA.
- Statement D talks about a question that is asked in statement B hence, D will come after B.
- Statement C shows the answer to the question hence, C will come after D.
- Finally, A will come at the end of the arrangement.
- Now we have the final arrangement i.e. BDCA.
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 a Pronoun, find the noun for which the pronoun is used, both the statements containing the noun and pronoun will form a pair respectively.