Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. Soon after they left school, they decided that a small town was no place to make a fortune.
B. On reaching Paris, they agreed to separate because they wished to be independent of each other.
C. So, they ran away from home and managed to reach France on a cargo ship.
D. My father was a year older than his brother Oscar.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 4 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:
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The sentence D is independent of any other sentences as it is giving general information about "My father and his brother". Hence, D is the first part.
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The pronoun "they" mentioned in the sentence A refers back to the 'My father and his brother mentioned in the sentence D Hence, A follows D.
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The phrase 'to make a fortune' in the sentence A is linked with the phrase 'they ran away from home' mentioned in the sentence C. Hence, C follows A.
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The sentence B is the concluding sentence. Hence, B is the last sentence.
- Thus, the correct order after rearrangement is option 4 i.e. DACB.
The paragraph is: My father was a year older than his brother Oscar. Soon after they left school, they decided that a small town was no place to make a fortune. So, they ran away from home and managed to reach France on a cargo ship. On reaching Paris, they agreed to separate because they wished to be independent of each other.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 4 i.e. DACB.