Question 168
HardOriginal questionArrange the sentences in the right order to make a paragraph.
P. Some birds travel thousands of kilometres every year.
Q. Then the villagers of Nagaland agreed to stop the hunting and protect the birds instead.
R. The Amur falcon, for example, flies from Siberia and China to Africa, stopping in Nagaland on the way.
S. For years, many of these falcons were hunted when they rested there.
T. Now thousands of visitors come each autumn to watch the falcons in the sky.
Show the answer and explanation
Correct answer: D
Explanation
P opens with the general fact. R gives an example, "for example".
S says what happened to "these falcons" when they rested "there", in Nagaland. Q is "then", the change, and T is "now".
So the order is PRSQT.
Worth noting
PSRQT brings in the hunting before the falcon and the place where it rests have been named.
- Concept
- Ordering sentences by their links: the opener, pronouns, connectors and sequence
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