Sentences Rearrangement Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: F

The FIRST sentence of the rearranged paragraph is F.

Correct sequence: F – A – C – E – B – D

How the paragraph builds:

1. F is a fragment - contrary to popular concepts of a predominantly rural India - so it must attach to a main clause.
2. A supplies it: a larger percentage now lives in urban areas.
3. C gives the comparison: India’s urban population is second largest after China.
4. E continues that comparison with and is higher than.
5. B opens the growth figures: over fifty years the national population grew 2.5 times.
6. D completes the contrast: in urban areas it grew five times.

Three of the six sentences are fragments - F, E and D - and each has to be attached to the clause it depends on, which fixes the whole order.

Answer: E

Correct answer: E

The FOURTH sentence of the rearranged paragraph is E.

Correct sequence: F – A – C – E – B – D

How the paragraph builds:

1. F is a fragment - contrary to popular concepts of a predominantly rural India - so it must attach to a main clause.
2. A supplies it: a larger percentage now lives in urban areas.
3. C gives the comparison: India’s urban population is second largest after China.
4. E continues that comparison with and is higher than.
5. B opens the growth figures: over fifty years the national population grew 2.5 times.
6. D completes the contrast: in urban areas it grew five times.

Three of the six sentences are fragments - F, E and D - and each has to be attached to the clause it depends on, which fixes the whole order.

Answer: C

Correct answer: B

The FIFTH sentence of the rearranged paragraph is B.

Correct sequence: F – A – C – E – B – D

How the paragraph builds:

1. F is a fragment - contrary to popular concepts of a predominantly rural India - so it must attach to a main clause.
2. A supplies it: a larger percentage now lives in urban areas.
3. C gives the comparison: India’s urban population is second largest after China.
4. E continues that comparison with and is higher than.
5. B opens the growth figures: over fifty years the national population grew 2.5 times.
6. D completes the contrast: in urban areas it grew five times.

Three of the six sentences are fragments - F, E and D - and each has to be attached to the clause it depends on, which fixes the whole order.

Answer: E

Correct answer: C

The THIRD sentence of the rearranged paragraph is C.

Correct sequence: F – A – C – E – B – D

How the paragraph builds:

1. F is a fragment - contrary to popular concepts of a predominantly rural India - so it must attach to a main clause.
2. A supplies it: a larger percentage now lives in urban areas.
3. C gives the comparison: India’s urban population is second largest after China.
4. E continues that comparison with and is higher than.
5. B opens the growth figures: over fifty years the national population grew 2.5 times.
6. D completes the contrast: in urban areas it grew five times.

Three of the six sentences are fragments - F, E and D - and each has to be attached to the clause it depends on, which fixes the whole order.

Answer: E

Correct answer: E

The FIRST sentence of the rearranged paragraph is E.

Correct sequence: E – C – A – F – D – B

How the paragraph builds:

1. E states the claim: money is the foundation of our society.
2. C begins the not only half.
3. A completes it with but also.
4. F adds a further benefit with and.
5. D turns the argument with but money is merely a means.
6. B closes on the limit of what money can do.

Not only… but also is a fixed pair, so C must be immediately followed by A.

Answer: D

Correct answer: A

The THIRD sentence of the rearranged paragraph is A.

Correct sequence: E – C – A – F – D – B

How the paragraph builds:

1. E states the claim: money is the foundation of our society.
2. C begins the not only half.
3. A completes it with but also.
4. F adds a further benefit with and.
5. D turns the argument with but money is merely a means.
6. B closes on the limit of what money can do.

Not only… but also is a fixed pair, so C must be immediately followed by A.

Answer: A

Correct answer: D

The FIFTH sentence of the rearranged paragraph is D.

Correct sequence: E – C – A – F – D – B

How the paragraph builds:

1. E states the claim: money is the foundation of our society.
2. C begins the not only half.
3. A completes it with but also.
4. F adds a further benefit with and.
5. D turns the argument with but money is merely a means.
6. B closes on the limit of what money can do.

Not only… but also is a fixed pair, so C must be immediately followed by A.

Answer: C

Correct answer: F

The FOURTH sentence of the rearranged paragraph is F.

Correct sequence: E – C – A – F – D – B

How the paragraph builds:

1. E states the claim: money is the foundation of our society.
2. C begins the not only half.
3. A completes it with but also.
4. F adds a further benefit with and.
5. D turns the argument with but money is merely a means.
6. B closes on the limit of what money can do.

Not only… but also is a fixed pair, so C must be immediately followed by A.

Answer: B

Correct answer: B

The LAST sentence of the rearranged paragraph is B.

Correct sequence: E – C – A – F – D – B

How the paragraph builds:

1. E states the claim: money is the foundation of our society.
2. C begins the not only half.
3. A completes it with but also.
4. F adds a further benefit with and.
5. D turns the argument with but money is merely a means.
6. B closes on the limit of what money can do.

Not only… but also is a fixed pair, so C must be immediately followed by A.

Answer: D

Correct answer: D

The SIXTH sentence of the rearranged paragraph is D.

Correct sequence: B – E – A – F – C – D

How the paragraph builds:

1. B sets the scene: a dense forest sixteen miles from Mysore.
2. E introduces the character living in it.
3. A gives his difficulty - he blamed his honesty for the family’s poverty.
4. F is his decision: so he wanted to discuss it with his family.
5. C is the discussion itself.
6. D is their reply, which ends the story.

This is a narrative, so the order follows the events; so in F and them in C each point back to the sentence before.