Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. She had never seen so large and so golden an apple.
B. Hilda was passing through an orchard when an apple fell at her feet.
C. So, she wrapped it in her handkerchief and carried it home to store it in her drawer.
D. She held it carefully in her clasped hands and thought it would be a pity to eat it.
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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 sentence because it is the starting of an incident and 'Hailda' is a noun as well.
- Sentence B talks about 'Halida' passing through an orchard and falling of an apple at her feet and sentence A describes that apple. Therefore, sentence B will be followed by sentence A.
- Sentence D will come next because sentence A talks about an apple and sentence D talks about her taking that apple in her hand.
- Lastly, sentence C will be used because tells what Hilda did with the apple after holding it in her hands.
- Thus, the correct order after rearrangement is option 2 i.e. BADC.
The paragraph is: Hilda was passing through an orchard when an apple fell at her feet. She had never seen such a large and so golden an apple. She held it carefully in her clasped hands and thought it would be a pity to eat it. So, she wrapped it in her handkerchief and carried it home to store it in her drawer.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 2 i.e. BADC.