Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences is the right order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph. P. When her mother was expecting Santosh, a travelling holy man giving her blessings assumed that she wanted a son. Q. The only woman in the world who scaled Mount Everest twice was born in a village. R. In that village, the birth of a son was considered as a blessing, and that of a daughter was not welcome. S. The unborn child’s grandmother told that they did not want a son.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences is the right order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph. P. When her mother was expecting Santosh, a travelling holy man giving her blessings assumed that she wanted a son. Q. The only woman in the world who scaled Mount Everest twice was born in a village. R. In that village, the birth of a son was considered as a blessing, and that of a daughter was not welcome. S. The unborn child’s grandmother told that they did not want a son. Correct Answer QRPS

The correct answer is option 1) i.e. QRPS.

Key Points

  • Sentence Q is the introductory sentence. It will be the first sentence.
  • sentence R makes the continuity of the sentence. So it will be the second sentence.
  • Sentence P extends the matter further. It will be the third sentence.
  • Sentence S is the concluding sentence. It is the fourth sentence.

Important Points

  • Sentence Q ends with ‘a village’.
  • Sentence R starts with ‘in that village'. So sentence R will follow sentence Q
  • Sentence P includes ‘she wanted a son’.
  • Sentence S includes they did not want a son. It makes clear that S will follow P.

 

Thus the correct sequence of the sentences is QRPS.

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