Question 157
MediumOriginal questionArrange the sentences in the right order to make a paragraph.
P. A group of students noticed that the school canteen threw away a lot of food.
Q. On average, twenty kilograms of food went into the bin daily.
R. They showed the numbers to the principal and suggested smaller servings, with seconds for anyone still hungry.
S. They weighed the waste every day for a month.
T. Within a month of the change, the waste fell to five kilograms a day.
Show the answer and explanation
Correct answer: C
Explanation
P opens: it names the students and the problem. S is what "they" did first.
Q gives the result of the weighing, R is what they did with "the numbers", and T is "within a month of the change".
So the order is PSQRT.
Worth noting
SPQRT opens with "they", who have not been named yet.
- Concept
- Ordering sentences by their links: the opener, pronouns, connectors and sequence
- Typical timeTypical
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