Arrange the sentences in the right order to make a paragraph.
P. He realised that the mould was making something that killed germs.
Q. He called it penicillin, but for years nobody could make enough of it to use as a medicine.
R. Only in the 1940s did other scientists find a way, and penicillin went on to save millions of lives.
S. Around the mould, the germs he had been growing had died.
T. In 1928, Alexander Fleming came back from a holiday to find mould growing on a dish in his laboratory.

TSPQRCorrect answerYour answerTPSQRCorrect answerYour answerTQPRSCorrect answerYour answerSPTQRCorrect answerYour answer

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Correct answer: A

T opens: Fleming and the mould. S says what had happened "around the mould".
P is what "he realised", Q is the name he gave "it", and R is "only in the 1940s".
So the order is TSPQR.

Worth noting

TPSQR has him realise what the mould was doing before we learn the germs around it had died.

Concept: Ordering sentences by their links: the opener, pronouns, connectors and sequence
Typical timeTypical: 100 s
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