Find out the correct option for the given sentences.

Concept

A grammatically complete English sentence built from a jumbled set of words must follow the core word order Subject + Verb + Object, with any modifying phrase placed immediately next to the word it describes. A phrase such as "worthy of an elderly man" is an adjective phrase, so it must sit right after the noun it qualifies; it cannot float at the start of the clause or be cut off by commas from what it modifies.

Application

Identify the building blocks in the given words and assemble them in order:

1. Subject: "He" — the doer of the action, so it opens the sentence.

2. Verb + Object: "showed courage" — what he did.

3. Adjective phrase: "worthy of an elderly man" — this describes the kind of courage, so it is placed immediately after "courage".

Putting these together gives: "He showed courage worthy of an elderly man." The phrase "worthy of an elderly man" sits next to "courage", which it modifies, and the clause reads as a single smooth statement with no commas breaking the phrase from its noun.

Why the other orderings fail

• "Worthy of an elderly man he showed courage" — opening with the adjective phrase leaves it dangling: a reader first attaches "worthy of an elderly man" to "He" rather than to "courage", so the modifier is misplaced and the run of words has no punctuation to recover the intended sense.

• "An elderly man, worthy of, he showed courage" — the commas chop "worthy of" out of the middle and leave it with no noun to complete it ("worthy of" what?), so the string is a broken fragment, not one clause.

• "Worthy of, he showed courage, an elderly man" — the same dangling "worthy of" plus a trailing "an elderly man" that is grammatically stranded; the commas split a single idea into disconnected pieces.