Choose the order of the sentences marked A, B, C, D and E to form a logical paragraph.
A. The house is quite old and in a bad shape.
B. Through it, I can see an old woman seated in a chair.
C. Far away in a narrow street there is a house.
D. Her face is worn and full of wrinkles.
E. One of the windows is open.
Solution
The nouns used in the passage are house-woman-street-face-windows.
We can sequentially arrange these nouns as: There is a street, where there is a house, which has windows, through which there is a woman with a face.
This is the sequential arrangement of nouns that make sense. Let us try arranging the 5 sentences in a way that make sense, while arranging the nouns sequentially.
C. Far away in a narrow street there is a house.
A. The house is quite old and in a bad shape.
E. One of the windows is open.
B. Through it, I can see an old woman seated in a chair.
D. Her face is worn and full of wrinkles.
Hence, the correct order of sentences is CAEBD
