Question

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER.
Arrange the given sentences in a logical order.
1. What’s more, English is the medium of higher education, even in non-English speaking countries.
2. Knowing the language, therefore, immediately opens up career opportunities in these fields regardless of your ethnicity and background.
3. For this reason, its imperative for you to be a competent user of the language.
4. One of the strongest arguments in favour of learning English is that English is considered to be the international language for business, science, and technology.
a) 2 1 3 4
b) 4 2 1 3
c) 1 2 3 4

Answer 1

Hint: The sentences tell us advice to be used. This advice needs to be in the right order. Try to rearrange it in the order that makes the most sense.

Complete answer:
Let us look at the first sentence. In this sentence ‘What’s more, English is the medium of higher education, even in non-English speaking countries.’, the first words are indicative of another sentence coming before it.
Now, look at the second sentence - ‘Knowing the language, therefore, immediately opens up career opportunities in these fields regardless of your ethnicity and background.’, the sentence contains the word ‘therefore’. This refers to a reason coming before this sentence. Only then, the ‘therefore’ in this sentence would make complete sense.
The third sentence is ‘For this reason, its imperative for you to be a competent user of the language’. This sentence also starts with ‘For this reason’. This means that there is another sentence before this one. The sentence that gives us a reason for English being imperative to learn.
The fourth sentence ‘One of the strongest arguments in favor of learning English is that English is considered to be the international language for business, science, and technology’, is a declarative sentence.

Now, we know what each sentence contains. Let us determine their order:

The fourth sentence is a simple fact which can be used to start a paragraph. This means that the fourth sentence is the starting point.
Then, the sentence that makes the most sense after this is the second one, as it contains ‘therefore’. Then, the first sentence fits in perfectly, and lastly, the third sentence which offers a conclusion.

So, the correct order is ‘4 2 1 3’, which means that the correct option is option ‘b’.

Note:
Make sure that each sentence aligns with the sentences that come before and after.
That will help to choose the order correctly. Then, choose the option that completely makes sense.