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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Which sentence doesn't make sense?

(A) It took a very long time for the English to take up the fork as it met cultural resistance. (B)Kitchen forks have been endlessly evolving for the past millenium or so.(C) But a historical background check will put its origins somewhere in Greece.(D) Initially used for the carving of meat, the fork came to the dining table pretty late. (E) It was around the 7th century that royal courts in the Middle Eastern Muslim world started to use the fork on the dining table. Which is the distruptive sentence? I am confused. I said C at first then said B now I think A. Please help.
  

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I wouldn't say any of them are wrong. B is the only one that talks of 'forks' in the plural. C is a sentence that starts with 'But'.

— Clive

  • I wouldn't say any of them are wrong.
  • B is the only one that talks of 'forks' in the plural.
  • C is a sentence that starts with 'But'.
  • These are matters of style, but perhaps you might term them 'disruptive'.
  • Clive
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I wouldn't say any of them are wrong.

B is the only one that talks of 'forks' in the plural.
C is a sentence that starts with 'But'.

These are matters of style, but perhaps you might term them 'disruptive'.

Clive
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Anonymousdistruptive
What do you mean by "distruptive?"

If you mean a sentence that had an oddity in it, I would pick D.
Knives are used for carving meat; the fork is used to hold the meat secure during carving.
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I mean, which sentence disrupts flow of the paragraph
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Anonymous I mean, which sentence disrupts the flow of the paragraph
This didn't seem like a coherent paragraph. What you have to do is try to re-arrange one of the sentences so that the paragraph makes sense.

Title: Kitchen Forks

(B) Kitchen forks have been endlessly evolving for the past millennium or so.(C) But a histor
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AnonymousWhich is the distruptive disruptive sentence?
I believe it's supposed to be the first sentence you read which doesn't logically follow the preceding sentence, and the logical order is found by putting all the sentences in the correct order as A.S. did.

"disruptive" cannot apply to the first sentence. Being the first, it can't dis
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Thanks but I found the paragraph and then can I eliminate A, precisely? http://www.interestingfacts.org/fact/facts-about-forks
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AnonymousThanks but I found the paragraph and then can I eliminate A, precisely?
The way I interpret the task, you can always eliminate A, but I may be wrong about how you are supposed to do these.

CJ
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AnonymousThanks but I found the paragraph and then can I eliminate A, precisely?
No, You cannot eliminate A. A belongs in the paragraph, but it was not in the correct place.
This exercise gives you practice in logical flow. Logical flow is very important in writing essays.
The logical flow in this paragraph is historical order, but there are other ways
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