Please login

Prime

Prepinsta Prime

Video courses for company/skill based Preparation

(Check all courses)
Get Prime Video
Prime

Prepinsta Prime

Purchase mock tests for company/skill building

(Check all mocks)
Get Prime mock
PrepInsta
Feed
Prime

Paragraph Ordering Paragraph Ordering

December 16, 2020

Paragraph Ordering Questions​

Formula

Definition Paragraph Ordering

Paragraph Ordering Questions covers a sets of connected sentences which are arranged randomly. Once these sentences are ordered correctly they create a meaningful paragraph. 

Formula or Rule for finding the correct paragraph ordering:

Word Indicators:

  • Introduction – A, An, Nowadays, Beginning.
  • Conclusion – Clearly, Thus, Therefore, Eventually, Finally.
  • Comparison Indicators – Similarly, Likewise.
  • Contrast Indicators – On the one hand, But, Yet, However, Nevertheless, Although.
  • Additional Information Indicators – Also, Additionally.
  • Sequence Indicators – Firstly, Secondly, Thirdly, Lastly.
  • Cause and Effect – Due to, as, since.

Look for a mandatory pair

Identifying the first sentence

Identifying closing sentence

Question 1

Time: 00:00:00
Arrange the paragraph in the correct order:
A. Marine life would suffer because a lid of warm water would prevent the circulation that normally brings nutrients to the surface of the sea and the river waters.
B. But plant productivity would rise by 50 percent.
C. A number of effects are expected from global warming.
D. Also, the warmer climate could melt the floating ice of the Arctic Ocean thereby resulting in a 20 ft. rise in oceans and surrounding areas.

C D B A

C D B A

B C D A

B C D A

C A B D

C A B D

B A D C

B A D C

Good Job!

Oops!

  • PrepInsta Explanation
  • User Explanation
Once you attempt the question then PrepInsta explanation will be displayed.

Please login to submit your explanation

Start

Question 2

Time: 00:00:00
Arrange the paragraph in the correct order:
A. Each year we still have to choose some mix of output that is consistent with our existing production possibilities.
B. Choosing what to produce – a mix of output – is one of our most important economic decisions.
C. However promising the prospects for growth may be, we still have to live within our current production constraints.
D. The fact that those limits may expand in future years does not make our current choices any easier.
E. There is still a limit to how much we can produce in any year.

A B C D E

A B C D E

C E D A B

C E D A B

D C B E A

D C B E A

A D C B E

A D C B E

Good Job!

Oops!

  • PrepInsta Explanation
  • User Explanation
Once you attempt the question then PrepInsta explanation will be displayed.

Please login to submit your explanation

Start

Question 3

Time: 00:00:00
Arrange the paragraph in the correct order:
A. Young aspiring students can now learn through online videos
B. Many foreign universities have created online courses
C. As online classes have become easily accessible
D. With affordable fee structure’s

ACBD

ACBD

DACB

DACB

CABD

CABD

CADB

CADB

Good Job!

Oops!

  • PrepInsta Explanation
  • User Explanation
Once you attempt the question then PrepInsta explanation will be displayed.

Please login to submit your explanation

Start

Question 4

Time: 00:00:00
Arrange the paragraph in the correct order:
A. Where it has more than 1 billion users
B. Its market value has crossed the billion mark
C. Facebook is the most successful social media platform
D. Making it the 3rd most valuable company in the world

ACBD

ACBD

DACB

DACB

ADBC

ADBC

CABD

CABD

Good Job!

Oops!

  • PrepInsta Explanation
  • User Explanation
Once you attempt the question then PrepInsta explanation will be displayed.

Please login to submit your explanation

Start

Question 5

Time: 00:00:00
Arrange the paragraph in the correct order:
A. Photos and videos can be edited
B. Learning adobe Photoshop is easy where
C. For creative graphic designers.
D. Adobe released its famous adobe Photoshop

DCBA

DCBA

DACB

DACB

ADBC

ADBC

CADB

CADB

Good Job!

Oops!

  • PrepInsta Explanation
  • User Explanation
Once you attempt the question then PrepInsta explanation will be displayed.

Please login to submit your explanation

Start

Question 6

Time: 00:00:00
Arrange the paragraph in the correct order:
A. For example, cars in the developing world are often seen as status symbols to be acquired, while in the developed world they are seen as liabilities to be discarded.
B. The size of the carbon footprint of nations in the developing world has again come in for serious international discussion.
C. The failed mission of Copenhagen is the immediate cause of the resumption of this debate.
D. While the main triggers of the debate are economic, social and cultural factors also have a major role to play.
E. As with so many other issues, clearly, here too ‘one man’s meat is another man’s poison.’

A D C B E

A D C B E

C A D B E

C A D B E

B C D A E

B C D A E

B A D C E

B A D C E

Good Job!

Oops!

  • PrepInsta Explanation
  • User Explanation
Once you attempt the question then PrepInsta explanation will be displayed.

Please login to submit your explanation

Start

Question 7

Time: 00:00:00
Arrange the paragraph in the correct order:
A. After all, a story told on the large screen inevitably differs from that told on the small screen.
B. This critical difference has an impact on viewership in terms of age, income and occupation.
C. In this, the age of multimedia, we have to train ourselves to understand that as a rule, the medium is the message.
D. It also has an impact on the expectations brought by the public to bear on large and small screen performances, and on the performers.
E. Never has the myth of ‘one size fits all’, been shown up so effectively, therefore, as in the field of Media Studies.

A C D B E

A C D B E

A D C B E

A D C B E

C A B D E

C A B D E

D C B A E

D C B A E

Good Job!

Oops!

  • PrepInsta Explanation
  • User Explanation
Once you attempt the question then PrepInsta explanation will be displayed.

Please login to submit your explanation

Start

Question 8

Time: 00:00:00
Arrange the paragraph in the correct order:
A. Medicines have evolved due to technology
B. Early medicines were limited
C. Modern medicines can cure major diseases as
D. And couldn’t cure major illnesses.

ACBD

ACBD

DACB

DACB

BDCA

BDCA

CADB

CADB

Good Job!

Oops!

  • PrepInsta Explanation
  • User Explanation
Once you attempt the question then PrepInsta explanation will be displayed.

Please login to submit your explanation

Start

Question 9

Time: 00:00:00
Arrange the paragraph in the correct order:
A. Just as man is the tool-making animal, the animal that cooks, the political animal, so too he is to us the reading animal, the creature by means of reading can bring himself to some degree of happiness and wisdom.
B. In spite of the sneers of so many writers, we hold that man rarely so innocent and fruitfully employed as he is when reading. That is why it relieves us to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts.
C. A book is a machine to think with. In learning to write the pupil does with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil.
D. In the same way in reading the greater part of the work, if thought is already done for us. To us the books are a means of escape.

C D A B

C D A B

B C D A

B C D A

C A D B

C A D B

D A C B

D A C B

Good Job!

Oops!

  • PrepInsta Explanation
  • User Explanation
Once you attempt the question then PrepInsta explanation will be displayed.

Please login to submit your explanation

Start

Question 10

Time: 00:00:00
Arrange the paragraph in the correct order:
A. In spite of free supplies and volunteer labour, money was an over-pressing concern.
B. The thousands of well-wishers who waited on the dock in San Francisco to wave goodbye to HOPE’s first medical team were denied the spectacle.
C. Dr Walsh was approached by an executive of the company that was going to operate the Hope on its maiden voyage.
D. In its fourteen years of bringing health care and education to people around the world, the SS Hope endured many stormy seas, and a few had nothing to do with the weather.

D A B C

D A B C

B D A C

B D A C

C D B A

C D B A

D A B C

D A B C

Good Job!

Oops!

  • PrepInsta Explanation
  • User Explanation
Once you attempt the question then PrepInsta explanation will be displayed.

Please login to submit your explanation

Start

Question 11

Time: 00:00:00
Arrange the paragraph in the correct order:
A. World is facing the ultimate climate change effects due to which
B. Pollution is rising to its peak which in turn is leading to the
C. Deaths of animals.
D. The marine life and life on land are being affected.

ADBC

ADBC

BCDA

BCDA

BDCA

BDCA

BCAD

BCAD

Good Job!

Oops!