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Vishaljain23231 Posted 12 years ago
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Please help me solve the question below
Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate sequence.
A. Robert Graves writes in “Goodbye to All That” that, leaving Charterhouse, his headmaster’s “parting shot” was “well, goodbye Graves, and remember that your best friend is the waste-paper basket”.
B. Catherine Hurley has even compiled a whole book of school reports of the famous, “Could Do Better”, which is weirdly compelling.
C. PG Wodehouse, at Dulwich College in 1899, was told “he has the most distorted ideas about wit and humour; he draws over his books and examination papers in the most distressing way and writes foolish rhymes in other people’s books”.
D. Charlotte Brontë is not the only author to have failed to receive a good send-off from school.
E. Her school’s routine and conditions, combined with Charlotte Brontë’s memory of her sisters’ deaths, provided inspiration for Lowood School in Jane Eyre.
a DECBA
b BDACE
c EDABC
d AEDCB
My answer was option a.
Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate sequence.
A. Robert Graves writes in “Goodbye to All That” that, leaving Charterhouse, his headmaster’s “parting shot” was “well, goodbye Graves, and remember that your best friend is the waste-paper basket”.
B. Catherine Hurley has even compiled a whole book of school reports of the famous, “Could Do Better”, which is weirdly compelling.
C. PG Wodehouse, at Dulwich College in 1899, was told “he has the most distorted ideas about wit and humour; he draws over his books and examination papers in the most distressing way and writes foolish rhymes in other people’s books”.
D. Charlotte Brontë is not the only author to have failed to receive a good send-off from school.
E. Her school’s routine and conditions, combined with Charlotte Brontë’s memory of her sisters’ deaths, provided inspiration for Lowood School in Jane Eyre.
a DECBA
b BDACE
c EDABC
d AEDCB
My answer was option a.
Top answer
I don't like these choices. I would have said, the more logical order is EDBAC or EDBCA "ED" is a unit, because both are about Charlotte Bronte, but D must follow E because E talks about problems with the school, and D introduces the new topic of "other authors" who have had a bad send-off from school. So, we have two "author" stories as examples, A and C.
- I don't like these choices.
- I would have said, the more logical order is EDBAC or EDBCA "ED" is a unit, because both are about Charlotte Bronte, but D must follow E because E talks about problems with the school, and D introduces the new topic of "other authors" who have had a bad send-off from school.
- So, we have two "author" stories as examples, A and C.
- They should go together (the order is immaterial).
- That leaves B, which can either go on the end as a conclusion or in the middle as a further introduction.
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I don't like these choices. I would have said, the more logical order is
EDBAC or EDBCA
"ED" is a unit, because both are about Charlotte Bronte, but D must follow E because E talks about problems with the school, and D introduces the new topic of "other authors" who have had a bad send-off from school. So, we have two "author" stories as examples, A and C. They should go together (the o
EDBAC or EDBCA
"ED" is a unit, because both are about Charlotte Bronte, but D must follow E because E talks about problems with the school, and D introduces the new topic of "other authors" who have had a bad send-off from school. So, we have two "author" stories as examples, A and C. They should go together (the o
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Doctor DI don't like these choices. I would have said, the more logical order isEDBAC or EDBCAI don't think it can start with E, can it? There is no antecedent for "Her"...
Of the options given, the least worst may be (a), but still it doesn't work properly for me.
Charlotte Brontë is not the only author to have failed to receive a good s
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GPYI don't think it can start with E, can it? There is no antecedent for "Her"...I think iy can act as some kind of 'anticipatory antecedent'.
Her school’s routine and conditions, combined with Charlotte Brontë’s memory of her sisters’ deaths, provided inspiration for Lowood School in Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë is not the only author to have f
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