Rearrange the following sentences to form a meaningful paragraph:
(A) Within an hour, families had filled every bucket and drum they owned, and the overhead tank ran dry by midnight.
(B) The next morning, the water board said that it had issued no such notice, and the message turned out to be two years old.
(C) Since then, our secretary has made a simple rule: nobody forwards a notice until someone has checked it with the office.
(D) Late one evening, a message claiming that the colony’s water supply would be cut for three days appeared on our residents’ chat group.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (D), (A), (B), (C)
Rearranged Parts:
(D) Late one evening, a message claiming that the colony’s water supply would be cut for three days appeared on our residents’ chat group.
(A) Within an hour, families had filled every bucket and drum they owned, and the overhead tank ran dry by midnight.
(B) The next morning, the water board said that it had issued no such notice, and the message turned out to be two years old.
(C) Since then, our secretary has made a simple rule: nobody forwards a notice until someone has checked it with the office.
Complete paragraph: Late one evening, a message claiming that the colony’s water supply would be cut for three days appeared on our residents’ chat group. Within an hour, families had filled every bucket and drum they owned, and the overhead tank ran dry by midnight. The next morning, the water board said that it had issued no such notice, and the message turned out to be two years old. Since then, our secretary has made a simple rule: nobody forwards a notice until someone has checked it with the office.