Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. Therefore, I bought a good house in a respectable neighbourhood.
B. This made me eager to welcome the first guest at home and show my hospitality.
C. I intended to be a model citizen in the neighbourhood.
D. I decided it was time for me to settle down.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 3 i.e. DACB.
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:
- Sentence D will be the first sentence because it is the starting of an incident.
- Sentence D describes that the writer has decided to settle down and sentence A explains what the writer did to settle down. Therefore, the next sentence will be sentence A.
- Sentence A is connected with sentence C because it tells what the writer intends to do after buying a house. Hence, sentence C will be the next sentence.
- And Lastly, sentence B will come because it shows how the writer decides to implement what he said in sentence C.
- Thus, the correct order after rearrangement is option 3 i.e. DACB.
The paragraph is: I decided it was time for me to settle down. Therefore, I bought a good house in a respectable neighborhood. I intended to be a model chizen in the neighborhood. This made me eager to welcome the first guest at home and show my hospitality.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 3 i.e. DACB.