Arrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph:
(A) For the first few evenings the silence was awkward, and my brother kept glancing at the basket whenever it buzzed.
(B) So they placed a basket near the dining table, and every phone had to go into it before the food was served.
(C) Slowly, though, the old arguments about cricket and films came back, and dinner now often runs past an hour.
(D) Last year my parents noticed that our family had stopped talking at dinner, as each of us sat scrolling through a phone.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (D), (B), (A), (C)
Rearranged Parts:
(D) Last year my parents noticed that our family had stopped talking at dinner, as each of us sat scrolling through a phone.
(B) So they placed a basket near the dining table, and every phone had to go into it before the food was served.
(A) For the first few evenings the silence was awkward, and my brother kept glancing at the basket whenever it buzzed.
(C) Slowly, though, the old arguments about cricket and films came back, and dinner now often runs past an hour.
Complete paragraph: Last year my parents noticed that our family had stopped talking at dinner, as each of us sat scrolling through a phone. So they placed a basket near the dining table, and every phone had to go into it before the food was served. For the first few evenings the silence was awkward, and my brother kept glancing at the basket whenever it buzzed. Slowly, though, the old arguments about cricket and films came back, and dinner now often runs past an hour.