Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. She could not accompany her daughter due to visa restrictions.
B. That trip to Florida with her father Yuri launched her on the path to success.
C. Maria had not yet celebrated her tenth birthday when she was packed off in a train to the United States.
D. But it also required a heart-wrenching two-year separation from her mother Yelena.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 3 i.e. CBDA.
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 C will be the first sentence. Here, the given question tells 'Maria has not yet celebrated her tenth birthday', it is the starting of an incident.
- Sentence C tells about 'Maria traveling to the United States' and sentence B further explains her trip. 'She had traveled with her father to Florida'. Therefore, sentence B will follow sentence C.
- Sentence D will be used next because it tells that she had left her mother behind.
- Lastly, sentence A will be used to explain why her mother could not travel with her.
- Thus, the correct order after rearrangement is option 3 i.e. CBDA.
The paragraph is: Maria had not yet celebrated her tenth birthday when she was packed off in a train to the United States. That trip to Florida with her father Yuri launched her on the path to success. But it also required a heart-wrenching two-year separation from her mother Yelena. She could not accompany her daughter due to visa restrictions.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 3 i.e. CBDA.