Question 73
MediumOriginal questionArrange the sentences in the right order to make a paragraph.
P. By the end of the term, it had the best results in the school.
Q. The new teacher did something no teacher had done before: she learned every student's name on the first day.
R. The class, which had been noisy for years, began to listen.
S. By the second day, she knew who liked cricket and who wanted to be a doctor.
Show the answer and explanation
CorrectNot quiteAnswer C
Correct answer: C
Explanation
Q opens: it names the new teacher and what she did. S is "by the second day".
R is how the class changed, and P is "by the end of the term".
So the order is QSRP.
Worth noting
SQRP opens with "by the second day, she", before we know who "she" is.
- Concept
- Ordering sentences by their links: the opener, pronouns, connectors and sequence
- Typical timeTypical
- 75 s
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