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Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Arrange in Meaningful Sequence

Question:

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the right order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. “Excellently well,” said she; “we have everything that we want; I have but one prayer, that we may have a heavy storm of rain to water our plants.”
B. A man who had two daughters married one to a gardener and the other to a potter.
C. Off he went to the potter's home and asked his other daughter how matters were with her.
D. After a while he paid a visit to the gardener's home and asked his daughter how she was, and how it fared with her.

Options:

ACDB

BCDA

BDAC

DCAB 

Correct Answer:

BDAC

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) - BDAC

The correct order of the sentences is BDAC.

  • B. A man who had two daughters married one to a gardener and the other to a potter. This sentence introduces the topic of the paragraph, which is a man with two daughters who married them off to a gardener and a potter.
  • D. After a while he paid a visit to the potter's home and asked his other daughter how matters were with her. This sentence states that the man visited his daughter who married the potter to see how she was doing.
  • A. “Excellently well,” said she; “we have everything that we want; I have but one prayer, that we may have a heavy storm of rain to water our plants.” This sentence states what the daughter who married the potter said when her father asked her how she was doing.
  • C. Off he went to the gardener's home and asked his daughter how she was, and how it fared with her. This sentence states that the man visited his other daughter who married the gardener to see how she was doing.

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