Arrange the following words in the order in which they appear in an English dictionary.
1. comedy, 2. comfort, 3. comfortable, 4. command
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → 1234
In a dictionary, words are compared letter by letter from the left; the first place where two words differ decides which comes first. When a whole word is the beginning of a longer word, the shorter word comes first.
All four words begin with com; the fourth letters are e (comedy), f (comfort, comfortable) and m (command)
So comedy comes first and command is last
comfort is the beginning of comfortable, so comfort comes before comfortable
Order: comedy (1), comfort (2), comfortable (3), command (4)
The sequence is 1234.