Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the…
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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. Tourists usually notice that there appears to be a great deal of vandalism on the walls, where a lot of the hieroglyphs, especially ones of the immortals, had been chipped off and destroyed.
B. What they might not notice is that the chipping is in a specific horizontal band, from about eye height up to about twelve to fifteen feet.
C. In recent times, archaeologists have discovered something very interesting about the wall carvings in Egyptian temples.
D. There is no chipping above or below that.
Answer: C. CABD — Concept: A coherent paragraph is built around (1) a topic sentence that introduces the subject, (2) supporting sentences that add specific detail about that…
- A.
BADC
- B.
DBAC
- C.
CABD
- D.
ADBC
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Correct answer: C
Concept: A coherent paragraph is built around (1) a topic sentence that introduces the subject, (2) supporting sentences that add specific detail about that subject, and (3) referential ties — pronouns such as "they" and demonstratives such as "that" — which only make sense once the noun or idea they point to has already appeared earlier in the sequence.
Application: tracing the referential ties sentence by sentence gives a single fixed order.
Sentence C is the topic sentence: it introduces the subject of the paragraph — archaeologists' recent discovery about the wall carvings in Egyptian temples — so it must open the paragraph.
Sentence A follows C directly: it supplies the first concrete detail about those same wall carvings — that tourists usually notice vandalism where hieroglyphs have been chipped off.
Sentence B follows A: its opening phrase "What they might not notice" uses the pronoun "they," which refers back to "Tourists" in A, and it adds the more specific detail of a horizontal chipping band.
Sentence D follows B: its demonstrative "that" ("There is no chipping above or below that") refers back to the chipping band just described in B, so D can only come immediately after B.
Cross-check: reading the sequence C, A, B, D straight through shows every pronoun and demonstrative already has an antecedent earlier in the paragraph, and the ideas move from the general discovery to a specific observation to an unnoticed detail to the boundary of that detail, with no gap in the topic.
Contrast: each other ordering breaks one of these referential ties.
BADC opens with B, whose "they" has no antecedent yet because A (which introduces "Tourists") has not appeared.
DBAC opens with D, whose "that" has no antecedent yet because B (which describes the chipping band) has not appeared.
ADBC places D immediately after A, again putting D's "that" ahead of B, the sentence that introduces the band "that" refers to.
Reading every sentence in the order C, A, B, D is the only arrangement in which all references resolve, giving the sequence CABD.