Day 3 worksheet – Sequencing Sentences1

S₁:

Calcutta unlike other cities kept its trams.

P :

As a result, there is horrendous congestion.

Q :

It was going to be the first in South Asia.

R :

They run down the center of the road

S :

To ease in, the city decided to build an underground railway line.

S₆:

The foundation stone was laid in 1972.

A.

PRSQ

B.

PSQR

C.

SQRP

D.

RPSQ

S₁:

For some time in his youth, Abraham Lincoln was the manager for a shop.

P :

Then a customer would come.

Q :

Young Lincoln’s way of keeping shop was entirely unlike anyone else’s.

R :

Lincoln would jump up and attend to his needs and then revert to his reading.

S :

He used to lie full length on the counter of the shop eagerly reading a book.

S₆:

Never before had Lincoln so much time for reading as he had then.

A.

SRQP

B.

QSPR

C.

SQRP

D.

QPSR

S₁:

Smoke oozed up between the planks.

P :

Passengers were told to be ready to quit the ship.

Q :

The rising gale fanned the smoldering fire.

R :

Everyone now knew there was fire on board.

S :

Flames broke out here and there.

S₆:

Most people bore the shock bravely.

A.

SRQP

B.

QPSR

C.

RSPQ

D.

QSRP