Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the…

Concept: To solve a sentence-rearrangement (para-jumble) passage, first find the sentence that introduces the topic without depending on anything said earlier — that is the opening sentence. Then chain the remaining sentences using their logical connectors: contrast markers such as ‘but’ and ‘however’, reason/conclusion markers such as ‘the reason being’ and ‘therefore’, and words that point back to an idea already introduced. A sentence built on such a connector can never come before the sentence it is responding to.

Application:

1. C opens the paragraph: ‘Nonsense verse is one of the most sophisticated forms of literature’ introduces the topic without needing anything stated before it, so C is first.

2. F follows C: ‘The reason being it requires the reader to supply a meaning beyond the surface meaning’ directly explains WHY nonsense verse is sophisticated, the point C just raised — so F is second.

3. B follows F: ‘But such a verse may also be enjoyed at the surface level’ uses the contrast marker ‘But’ to push back against the deeper-meaning point F just made, so B is third.

4. D follows B: ‘This fulfils the author’s main intention in such a verse which is to give pleasure’ explains that the surface-level enjoyment described in B is exactly what fulfils the author’s purpose, so D is fourth.

5. E follows D: ‘However the reader who understands the broad implications of the content and allusion finds greater pleasure’ uses ‘However’ to contrast the surface-level pleasure of D with a deeper pleasure, so E is fifth.

6. A closes the paragraph: ‘it is therefore what the reader thinks which gives extra meaning to these verses’ uses the concluding connector ‘therefore’ to sum up the whole argument, so A is sixth and last.

Cross-check — why the other sentences cannot be second:

• A cannot be second: it opens with the concluding connector ‘therefore’ and sums up everything said before it, so it can only be the closing sentence of the paragraph.

• E cannot be second: it opens with ‘However’, a contrast marker that needs a prior statement about the author’s intention to give pleasure to push back against, so it belongs later in the sequence, right after that statement.

• B cannot be second: it opens with ‘But’, a contrast marker that needs the sophistication argument to already be stated so it can push back against it — so it must follow the sentence that supplies that reason, not sit right after the opening sentence.

The full order is C – F – B – D – E – A, so the SECOND sentence is F.