Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. Several times I have visited the narrow, dirty streets where the poor live, and I growhot and indignant to think that good people should be content to live in fine houses and become strong and beautiful, while others are condemned to live in hideous, sunless tenements and grow ugly, withered and cringing.
B. Dear little creatures, they crouch in my heart and haunt me with a constant sense of pain.
C. The children who crowd these grimy alleys, half-clad and underfed, shrink away from your outstretched hand as if from a blow.
D. In the country one sees only nature’s fair works, and one’s soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes on in the crowded city.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is option 4 i.e. DACB.
- The sentence, that has the topic, should come first.
- Sentence D introduces the topic “The life in crowded city”. The rest of the sentences are related to this topic.
- Hence, option 4 is the correct answer as only this option has sentence D in the initial position.