Question : Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. Several times I have visited the narrow, dirty streets where the poor live, and I grow hot and indignant to think that good people should be content to live in fine houses and become strong and beautiful, while others are condemned to live in hideous, sunless tenements and grow ugly, withered and cringing.
B. Dear little creatures, they crouch in my heart and haunt me with a constant sense of pain.
C. The children who crowd these grimy alleys, half-clad and underfed, shrink away from your outstretched hand as if from a blow.
D. In the country one sees only nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes on in the crowded city.
Option 1: BACD
Option 2: ADBC
Option 3: CABD
Option 4: DACB
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Correct Answer: DACB
Solution : The correct order of the sentences to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph is the fourth option : DACB.
The statement (D) is the subject in which there is a comparison between urban and rural life. It is followed by statement (A) describing the subject clearly by mentioning the pathetic conditions of poor children. Statement (A) is in turn followed by statement (C) describing the grimy living conditions of the children. Finally, the paragraph concludes with the statement (B) causing pain in the narrator's heart on seeing the pitiable condition of the poor children.
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