Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. People were driving away wild pigs from the fields by shooting at them.
B. We were passing through the sugarcane fields near Mysore.
C. We thought that the shooting was over when a sloth bear came running towards us.
D. Some got shot and others escaped.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 2 i.e. BADC.
While arranging the parts of the passage, we should find some grammatical or contextual connections between them. Also, the first sentence of a passage is usually independent and introduces a topic. The second one provides more information about it.
Steps to arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph:
- In the given question sentence B will be the first statement because it is the starting of an incident.
- Sentence B talks about the author's traveling to the fields of sugarcane and sentence A explains what people were doing in those fields. Therefore, sentence A will be the next sentence.
- Sentence A ends with 'pigs shooting' and sentence D tells how some pigs were shot and some pigs had escaped. Thus, sentence D is the third sentence.
- Lastly, sentence C will be used because it tells how the shooting ended with the coming of a sloth bear.
- Thus, the correct order after rearrangement is option 2 i.e. BADC.
The paragraph is: We were passing through the sugarcane fields near Mysore. People were driving away wild pigs from the fields by shooting at them. Some got shot while others escaped. We thought that the shooting was over when a sloth bear came running towards us.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 2 i.e. BADC.