Question 37
MediumOriginal questionArrange the sentences in the right order to make a paragraph.
P. Last year, at the age of seventy, she joined an evening class in the village.
Q. Today she reads the newspaper to the whole family every morning.
R. She had left school at eight to help at home, and never went back.
S. Ravi's grandmother had always wanted to learn to read.
Show the answer and explanation
CorrectNot quiteAnswer A
Correct answer: A
Explanation
S opens: it names her and her wish. R explains why she never learned: she left school as a child.
P moves to "last year", when she finally joined a class, and Q is "today", the result.
So the order is SRPQ.
Worth noting
RSPQ opens with "she", who has not been named yet.
- Concept
- Ordering sentences by their links: the opener, pronouns, connectors and sequence
- Typical timeTypical
- 75 s
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