1.

Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. The king asked the stranger how long he wanted to live.
b. He was very fond of knowing his future from the astrologer.
c. But another thought had crossed his mind before the stronger was removed for
execution.
d. The astrologer told him something unpleasant.
e. He condemned him to death.
f. The king called on him. He took the astrologer to be a liar.
g. At this, the king got furious.
h. He wanted to know about his future from him.
i. A famous astrologer happened to stop at his capital.
j. Once there was a king.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
j b i f h d g e c a

2. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. He studied Bar- at - Law in England and went to South Africa to practice it.
b. He suffered much for the cause of the country and went to jail many times.
c. Mahatma Gandhi is called the Father of the Indian Nation.
d. He was born on October 2. 1894, at Rajkot in Gujrat.
e. He swathes the condition of the Indians there and felt sad.
f. He returned to India and started a movement to make people aware that they
could live in a free country.
g. Finally, India got her freedom in 1947.
h. He fought for India’s freedom in a non-violent way without using any weapon.
i. Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead by Nathuram Godse on January 30, 1948.
j. He was named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
Answer: c + d + j + a + e + f + b + h + g + i.
3. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. However, he picked it up and carried it home.

b. He showed it to his wife.
c. The lands yielded him some crops.
d. One day, he walks through the fields.
e. With that, he supported his family.
f. He thought that a passer-by might have dropped it.
g. He had a few acres of land.

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h. He was thinking about how he could add to his income.
i. There lived a farmer in a village.
j. While walking, he came across a purse of gold.

Answer: i + g + c + e + h + d + j + f + a + b.

4. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. The older woman was very good and kind.

b. She could not but feel pity for him.
c. an older woman lived in the house.
d. He came to a house.
e. He was moving here in search of food.
f. So he gave him a full dish of food very quickly.
g. He asked her to give him something to eat.
h. She was very moved to hear Taimur’s word.
i. He did not get anything to eat.
j. One day, Taimur because very hungry.

Answer: j + i + e + d + c + g + a + h + b + f.

5. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. Rajah Dehir sent a cold reply to this message.

b. The ship was attacked by sea robbers from Debul, a sea - pot in Sind.
c. Hajjaj was very angry when he received the reply and decided to teach the proud
king a lesson.
d. An Arab ship was carrying a party of Muslim from Ceylon to Mecca for the Hajj.
e. In Sina hard battle was fought, and Rajah Dahir was killed, and his army was
completely defeated.
f. They looted the ship and carried away Muslim women and children.
g. He asked him to return the Muslim women and children.
h. He was angry when he heard what has happened and sent a messenger to Rajah
Dahir, the ruler of Sind.
i. He sent his nephew Mohammad - bin - Qasim at the head of 12000 soldiers.
j. This sad news reached Hajjaj- bin- Yusuf, the Governor of Iraq.

Answer: i + d + c + j + e + f + g + h + b + a.

6. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. Socrates could not tolerate this.

b. One day, the women became more furious than ever.
c. She thought that her husband was not paying the least to her.
d. She began to insult him.
e. Socrates wife used to lose her temper on the slightest excuse.
f. So he went out of his room.
g. She went up to him with a bucket full of water and poured water on him.
h. This made his wife more furious.
i. He sat on the doorstep of his house, looking out on the public street.

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Answer: e + i + b + d + a + f + j + h + c + g

7. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. He was born in a prosperous family in 1832.

b. In the middle of the 1880s, the French government decided to organize a World
Fair in Paris.
c. The Tower was completed in March 11889.
d. All over, European engineers copied them.
e. He graduated from the Central School of Engineering in Paris.
f. Gustav Eiffel proposed a 989 feet tower of the icon as a symbol of the exhibition.
g. For years, Gustav made plan after plan of dams, factories and structures of great
size.
h. Forty engineers and designers under Eiffel’s direction worked for two years.
i. Gustav Eiffel was a Frenchman.
j. The construction of the Tower began in January 1887.

Answer: i + a + e + g + d + b + f + j + h + c

8. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. The letter contained nothing but some words.

b. During his stay, he received an unequal from his friend.
c. His friend thought that the parcel contents were valuable, so he paid the heavy
charge for carrying.
d. Then he sent it to his friends with the words on it Carriage to be paid on delivery.
e. He became very annoyed.
f. So he procured a heavy stone.
g. He wanted to teach his friend a good lesson.
h. An English poet was staying in Italy for the benefit of his health.
i. The poet had to pay double postage.
j. He packed it up in a delicate box.

Answer: h + b + i + a + e + g + f + j + d + c

9. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. One of them started pulling the fog by his tail.

b. Both the crows went to the dog.
c. He dropped the piece of bone on the ground and then looked back to see what the
matter was.
d. Once, a dog was eating a piece of bone sitting under a tree.
e. There sat a crow on the tree who wished to take away the bone for itself.
f. The dog felt disturbed and got very angry.
g. It flew away and after some time returned there with another crow.
h. The dog ran after the crows but in vain.
i. In the meeting, the second crow flew away with the bone
j. He became very sad.

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Answer: d + e + g + b + a + f + c + i + h +j

10. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. He entered the kingdom of the prince and captured a large village.

b. Taimur disguised himself as a poor traveller.
c. He came with a large army.
d. Taimur was one of the greatest conquerors of the world.
e. The prince heard the news.
f. Thus, he saved his life.
g. Taimur’s soldiers were all killed.
h. His soldiers surrounded the village.
i. The village was situated far away from the capital.
j. Once he attacked the proved of a powerful prince.

Ansewer: d + j + a + i + e + c + h + g + b +f

11. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. Hazrat Muhammad (Sm) was truthful from his boyhood.

b. He was the greatest of all the prophets.
c. He got revelation at the age of forty.
d. Then he was brought up by his grandfather Abdul Muttalib.
e. His father, Abdullah, died before his birth.
f. Hazrat Muhammad (Sm) was born in the Qurais tribe of Makkah in 570 A.D.
g. After the death of his grandfather, he was brought up by his uncle Abu Talib.
h. He made an organization named Hilful Fuzul at the age of 17.
i. He was brought up by Halima in his childhood.
j. He married Khadija at the age of 25.

Answer: f + e + i + d + g + a + h + j + c +b

12. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. The king was scared and ordered his men to let the astrologer go free.
b. The astrologer took note and replied. “Your Majesty, the princes will live only fifty
years.”
c. One day, the king invited him to tell about the future of his daughter.
d. There lived a man in a particular country who could tell peoples the future.
e. The king laughed at the fortune- teller and cut jokes with him.
f. He took the astrologer to be a liar.
g. The king said, “Judge correctly and say whether my daughter will live a hundred
years.”
h. The astrologer had the presence of mind and said, “I’ll die just a week before you,
sir.”
i. Before the astrologer was taken away, the king asked him. “Well, astrologer, can
you say you will die?”
j. The king was furious and ordered for his execution.

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Answer: d + c + g + b + j + e + f + i + h + a

13. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. The banker said, “I’ll put an end to your toiling.”

b. One day, the banker asked the cobber, “how much a year do you earn?”
c. He took the money, hurried back home and buried it in the earth alas! He buried
his happened with it too.
d. There lived a happy cobbler who passed his days working singing from morning till
night.
e. The cobbler replied, “How much a year, sir?”
f. Take this money and keep them carefully and use it in time of need.”
g. He had a rich neighbour who was a banker.
h. I have never counted that way.
i. The cobbler had never seen so much money at a time in his life before.
j. As you can see, “I live from hand to mouth, but somehow I manage to have three
meals every day, and I am happy.”

Answer: d + g + b + e + h + j + a + f + i + c

14. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. But there a neither the Caliph nor any of his officers here to see what we do.”
b. While passing but a cottage, the Caliph heard people talking in a very low tone.
c. One night Caliph Omar was out in the streets of Media.
d. “But you have forgotten the Caliph’s order, “replied the daughter.
e. He had only one companion with him.
f. An old woman was saying to her young daughter, “Why not mix water with the milk
for sale”.
g. “Well, we may escape the notice of the Caliph but cannot escape the eye Of Allah
who knows and sees everything.”
h. He/they walked about the streets silently observing the conditions of his subjects.
i. You know how poor we are and badly need money.
j. “He wants that nobody should sell milk mixed water.”

Answer: c + e + h + b + f + i + d + j + a +g

15. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. So he made up his mind to give up his throne and divide his kingdom among his
three daughters.
b. Goneril was the elders, Regan was second, and Cordelia was the youngest, and
the king’s the most favourite.
c. These events happened long ago when king Lear was ruling Britain.
d. But before giving up his throne, Lear wanted to know how much his daughters
loved him.
e. He needed peace and rest.
f. King Lear had three daughters.
g. He was over eighty years of age.
h. Now Lear was a very old man.

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i. Their names were Goneril, Regan and Cordelia.
j. He was tired of ruling his kingdom.

Answer: c + g + b+ i + e + h+ f + j + a + d

16. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. But he was always in need of money.

b. Its riches came from trade with other countries.
c. The city of Venice was once wealthy.
d. Whenever he needed money, he would go to Antonio, who would lend him money
without asking a question.
e. Among the riches of them was Antonio
f. Antoni had a close friend named Bassanio.
g. It was powerful too.
h. He was famous for his honesty and kindness.
i. For this reason, the chief citizens of Venice are wealthy merchants.
j. Bassanio was young and handsome, born in a noble family and liked to live in a
grand style.

Answer: c + g + b + i + e + h + f + j + a + d.

17. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. They sat together and talked over plans of getting their lost kingdom.
b. He stopped for a short while at Agra and Delhi.
c. Humayun had been defeated many times by Sher Shah.
d. Here, all his nobles had already come together.
e. Then he left for Lahore.
f. Humayun told them what he wanted to do.
g. The princes and nobles understood that then the only course was to fight again.
h. After his defeat at Chausha, Humayun fled towards Agra.
i. So they decided to put together all they had and prepared for a fight.
j. He arrived at Lahore after a long journey.

Answer: f + j + b + d + a + e + h + c + g + i.

18. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. So Dickens was withdrawn from school.

b. He could never forget this complex reality of his boyhood.
c. Charles Dickens was born on February 5 1812, in a small but respectable house
at Land port near Portsmouth.
d. His father, John Dickens, was a clerk in the navy pay office.
e. He was sent to work in a factory in 1823.
f. Because of poor financial condition, they had to move to London in 1814, where
they stayed for two years.
g. They resumed to London again after six years.
h. The family again transferred to Chathana in 1816.
i. Hia father was arrested as he could not pay his debts.

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j. But their fortune remained the same.

Answer: c + d + f + h + g + j + i + a + e + b.

19. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. He was an enemy of the English in India.

b. Tipu Sultan was the great son of the great father.
c. The Marathon did not come to help Tipu.
d. The English made up a plan to weaken his hand.
e. So he was left alone in the struggle against the English.
f. They kept aloof.
g. Tipu Sultan’s younger brother, Karim Shah, secretly joined the English camp.
h. He defeated the English forces in my battles and became the terror to the English.
i. He was a hero and patriot like his father, Haider Ali Khan.
j. He used the three words while speaking with a man. They won over the Nizam of
Hyderabad, and the Nizam joined the English.

Answer: b + i + a + h + d + j + g + c + f + e

20. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. But the guest praised Hatem Tai also.

b. Long long there live the king and generous man in Yemen.
c. The guest him more than their king.
d. People praised him more than their hospitality.
e. He was not rich, but he was their king.
f. So the king felt happy and proud.
g. One day, the king gave a dinner.
h. This made the king angry.
i. So the king gave a dinner.
j. The name of that man was Hatem Tai.

Answer: b + j + e + d + g + c + f + a + h + i.

21. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. He travelled for more than thirty years.

b. He boarded a ship for Chittagong.
c. Outside the town of Sylhet, two persons, met him.
d. Ibn-i-Batuta became very pleased hearing it.
e. It took him about six months to reach Chittagong.
f. They said that Shah Jalal sent them to receive him.
g. From there, he had to walk for another month to reach Sylhet.
h. You might have heard the name of ibn - i- Batuta.
i. You might have down that entered he saw.
j. He heard the name of Shah Jalal of Sylhet and decided to visit him.

Answer: h + a + i + j + b + e + g + c + f + d.

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22. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. He is called the Father of Biology because of his creativity.

b. ‘Polities’ is one of his famous books where we get the fullest development of his
wisdom.
c. Aristotle was born in Greece.
d. He also wrote books on literature, economics and comparative politics.
e. He wanted to be a physician, but he never cherished being so.
f. As a result of his childhood, he studied under a great free thinker Plato.
g. As a result of childhood, he studied under the great freethinker Plato.
h. He was the son of the Royal Physician.
i. Aristotle achieving his academic qualifications, took the pen to write different topics
suitable for human civilization.
j. Plato taught Aristotle according to his way.

Answer: c + h + f + e + g + j + i + b + d + a.

23. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. He had not much education.

b. He ascended the throne of Delhi at the age of 13.
c. His full name was Jalal Uddin Mahammad Akbar.
d. He was skilled in warfare.
e. Akbar was born in 1542 at Amafkoat in Sindh.
f. He won the 2nd Panipath battle in 1556.
g. His father was Humayun.
h. It was the most significant victory in his life.
i. He ruled over the grandson of Babur.
j. He was the grandson of Babur.
Answer: e + c + a + j + b + a + d + f + h + i.

24. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. Some of the best works are Gitanjali, Sonar Tari, Kheya, and Balaka.
b. He had no regular school education.
c. Rabindranath Tagore was born at Jorasako in Calcutta on May 7, 1861.
d. He established a school at Santiniketan and afterwards founded the University of
Viswa Bharati.
e. He was educated at home by his father and tutors.
f. He composed Gitanjali, a short of poems, and won the Nobel Prize in 1913.
g. He was a poet, a dramatist, a short story - writer, a novelist and an essayist.
h. He was a man of versatile genius.
i. He was a great patriot.
j. His father was Maharshi Debendranath Tagore.

Answer: e + h + f + j + a + g + b + c + i + d.

25. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

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a. He showed extraordinary merit in every examination of the school.
b. He made a great plan to give a new structure to the education system.
c. He made a great contribution to the scientific research of Bangladesh.
d. At the age of six, he was admitted to a Furkania Madrasha and then in an English
school.
e. Extraordinary meritorious Dr Kudrat-e-Khuda was born on May 18 in the district of
Birbhum in West Bengal in 1900.
f. In 1925, he passed M. Sc. in Chemistry from Kolkata University with star marks.
g. He died on November 3, 1977.
h. His father, Hazrat Shah Abdul Mukti, was a pious man, and his mother, Fashiha
Khatun, was also a pious woman.
i. In 1953, he was appointed Chairman of the Secondary Education Board.
j. In 1929, he obtained D. Sc. from Imperial College in England.

Answer: e + h + d + a + f + j + c + i + b + g.

26. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. He passed his boyhood with his parents.

b. The school was four miles away from their house.
c. Fleming was a very regular and attentive student.
d. He was the seventh of the eight brothers and sisters.
e. Penicillin is life-saving medicine.
f. Dr Fleming was given the title’ Knight’ in 1944 for his humanitarian services.
g. It was discovered by Dr Alexander Fleming.
h. He went to school and came back home on foot.
i. Fleming was born in a low-income family in Scotland.
j. Up to the age of twelve, he was never absent from school.

Answer: e + g + i + d + a + c + h + b + j + f.

27. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. They never imagined that this shabbily dressed would be Einstein himself.
b. He could not think that these people were there actually to receive him.
c. Einstein walked the whole way from the station with a suitcase in one hand a violin
in the other.
d. “But”, Einstein added, “I assure you, I greatly enjoyed the walk”.
e. Once, Einstein went to Brussels at the invitation of the Queen of Belgium.
f. When he got down from the train at Brussels, he saw many gorgeously dressed
people present at the station.
g. The officials also expected to see somebody who would appear to be rich and
aristocratic to them.
h. With a smile on his face, he replied, “I didn’t expect that you’re Majesty.”
i. When he reached the palace, the Queen said to him, “I sent a car for you, Dr.”
j. So they went back to the Queen and informed her that the great scientist had not
come by train.

Answer: e + f + h + g + a + j + c + i + h + d.

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28. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. Then she became a teacher at a school in Calcutta.

b. Soon, her activities for the services of humanity spread all over the world.
c. She was on her heels for the services of humanity spread all over the world.
d. As a recognition of her service, she was awarded Nobel Prize for peace in 1979.
e. She was one of those people who dedicate their lives to the service of humanity.
f. When swore to dedicate her life for the cause of the helpless and poor people.
g. She wrote to dedicate her life to the cause of the helpless and poor people.
h. She was born in Yugoslavia in 1910.
i. She was also given the ‘Bharat Ratna Award’ in the following year.
j. You have heard the name of Mother Teresa.

Answer: j + h + e + f + a + g + b + d + i + c.

29. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. There ruled a king, Porus.

b. He was brought before Alexander.
c. Alexander was pleased with Porus at his bold reply.
d. Alexander crossed the Khaiber Pass and reached India.
e. Porus came forward with his men to defend Alexander.
f. But unfortunately, he was defeated in the battle and taken prisoner.
g. Then he came to the Plain of Punjab.
h. “Like a king”, was the reply of Porus.
i. Alexander asked him how he would like to be treated.
j. He allowed him to rule his country as before and made him king of another
province in Punjab.

Answer: d + g + a + j + b + i + f + h + c + e.

30. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. Mahammad Yunus received, however, his higher education in economics.

b. He founded the Grameen Bank and because it’s Managing Director.
c. His parents wanted him to be a doctor.
d. He became head of the economics department at Chittagong University in 1972.
e. He was awarded a full bright scholarship in the USA.
f. Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong, the business Bangladesh.
g. They were helpful to Yunus since he was a child.
h. He organized the world’s first Micro-Credit summit in Washington D.C.
i. He was the third son of 14 children of his parents.
j. He received his PhD from Vanderbilt University in the USA.

Answer: f + e + g + c + j + b + a + i + h + d

31. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. Hillary and Tenzing started their expenditure on March 10, 1953.

b. But the stop was still 2000 feet away.

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c. The conquest of Everest was one of the greatest achievements of men.
d. Many expeditions had been lent to conquer Mount Everest before the expedition
of Tenzing and Illiteracy.
e. Ignoring all odds and difficulties, they continued climbing and set up their last
camp at 27,000 feet.
f. Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Torkay accomplished this achievement on May 10,
1953.
g. Only Hillary and Tenzing reached that height.
h. They started climbing by setting up camps at different places, leaving some of
their men and supplies there.
i. With renewed vigour and courage, they went on climbing and eventually
succeeded in reading the top in May.
j. But they became unsuccessful, and many climbing lost their lives.
Answer: c + f + d + j + a + h + e + b + i + g.

32. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. He was sitting in the corner of the garden.

b. He did this sometimes.
c. Hazrat Hasan (R) was a very pious and honest man.
d. The boy took a bit of the bread in his hand.
e. He had a small piece of bread in his hand.
f. A huge dog sat at a distance looking at him.
g. One day, while passing through a date garden, he saw a boy.
h. Thus, he ate one half of his brad and gave away the other to the dog.
i. Hazrat Hasan (R) was surprised at the behaviour of the boy.
j. He went to the boy and talked to him.

Answer: c + g + a + e + f + d + b + h + i + j.

33. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. The honest farmer told his wife that honesty is the best policy and that he would
first try to find out the man who had lost it.
b. There lived a poor but worthy farmer in a village.
c. She advised him to use it or at least a part of it for themselves.
d. With the small income of his few acres of land, he used to support his wife and
seven children.
e. One day, while walking through the field, he found a purse of gold which a passer-
by had dropped.
f. The farmer kept saying, “Honesty is the best policy.”
g. The wife rebuked the husband for his foolishness.
h. He carried it home and showed it to his wife.
i. The rich man took the purse and gave him thanks but no reward.
j. The owner of the purse was at last discovered by the farmer.

Answer: b + d + e + h + c + a + j + i + g + f.

34. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

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a. Gustave proposed a 989 feet high tower of iron as a symbol of the exhibition, and
a lot of people worked on it for two years.
b. He used to work for a railway construction company.
c. He comes from a wealthy family.
d. He had his education in Engineering.
e. The Eiffel Tower was named after Gustave Eiffel.
f. The Tower was completed in March 1889.
g. Gustave made plans for dams, factories, stations and structures of significant size
construction.
h. A world’s fair was held in Paris.
i. It is still regarded as one of the wonders of the worlds.
j. Millions of people visit the Tower every year.
Answer: e + c + d + b + g + h + a + f + i + j.

35. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. The first friend climbed up a tree.

b. Suddenly a bear came there.
c. Once upon a time, two friends were passing by a forest.
d. The latter could not climb up a tree.
e. They were talking about their love for each other.
f. He did not anyway.
g. The bear smelt his ears, nose and face.
h. He lay down on the ground and feigned death.
i. Then the bear went away.
j. He thought him to be dead.

Answer: c + e + b + a + d + f + h + g + j + i.

36. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. Then the leader of the robbers came to Saadi.

b. The merchants had their goods and a lot of money.
c. He had a bundle of books and some money with him.
d. They travelled for twelve days without any trouble.
e. He ordered Saadi to give all he had to him.
f. On the thirteen-day, a gang of robbers attack them.
g. Sheikh Saadi was going to Baghdad with a group of rich merchants.
h. Saadi Sheikh Saadi was going to Baghdad with a group of rich merchants.
i. Saadi then said, “I hope that you will make good use of these books.”
j. The robbers took away all the goods and money from the merchants.

Answer: h + c + b + d + f + j + a + e + g + i.

37. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. At the age of eleven, he showed his poetic genius.

b. On his return from the battlefield, he gave up the sword for the pen and began to
write poems.
c. In 1914, when the First World War broke out, he wanted to join the army.

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d. Our national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was born in 1305 B.S (1899 A.D) at Churulia
in Burdwan.
e. At the age of 19, he joined the army as an ordinary soldier.
f. He wrote many poems, song, short stories, gazals, novels, etc. and travelled all
branches of Bengali literature.
g. His poems inspired our freedom fighters in the Liberation War of Bangladesh.
h. His famous poem Bidrohi stirred the whole nation.
i. He died on August 29, 1976.
j. Then he was brought to Bangladesh from Kolkata and was declared our national
poet.

Answer: d + a + c + e + b + f + h + g + j + i.

38. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. One of them started pecking the dog’s tail.

b. Both the crows went near the dog.
c. The dog dropped the bone and looked at the crow.
d. Once, a dog was eating a bone piece of meat under a tree.
e. The dog felt not only disturbed but also became angry.
f. It flew away and, after some time, return with another crow.
g. A crow saw him and wished to eat that.
h. In the meantime, the other crow flew away with the bone.
i. This made him sad and helpless.
j. The dog ran after the crow but in vain.

Answer: d + g + f + b + a + e + c + h + j + i.

39. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. The Nobel Prize has been given since 1901.

b. In 1850, Alfred joined his Dynamite business.
c. He was an engineer and chemist.
d. Dr Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833, in Stockholm, Sweden.
e. This award was named after Alfred Nobel, and it was called Nobel Prize.
f. His father ammunition business at Leningrad.
g. His father, Emanuel Nobel, was an architect and researcher.
h. He had ammunition business at Leningrad.
i. He undertook a plan to give an award for encouraging the creative work for setting
up peace in the world.
j. After some years, Alfred Nobel invented Dynamite.
Answer: e + d + g + h + b + j + c + i + f + a

40. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. The mayor called a meeting of the councillors.

b. The people of the town came to the town hall.
c. At that moment, there was a knock at the door.
d. They said to the mayor to do something about rats.
e. The Mayor and the councillors talked about the problem.

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f. A long time ago, the town of Hamlin in Germany was faced with a great problem.
g. The Mayor said, “Come in.”
h. But they could not find a way out.
i. The stranger entered the hall.
j. It became full of rates.

Answer: f + j + b + d + a + e + h + c + g + i.

41. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. The angel took down his request and went away.

b. His name was Abu-Ben-Adhem.
c. Abu then requested him to put his name on the list because he loved humankind
and his fellow brothers.
d. He again appeared the next night and showed Abu that his name was at the top of
the list.
e. The angel was writing the names of persons who loved God.
f. Once upon a time, there was an honest and pious man.
g. He asked the angel if his name was there.
h. He was once sleeping peacefully.
i. In reply, the angel said that his mane was not there.
j. Suddenly he woke up and saw an angel.

Answer: f + b + h + j + e + g + i + c + a + d.

42. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. The princes had fixed allowance for pocket money.

b. She saw a box market half a crown.
c. But her governess said, “No, the princess has no money, and so she can’t buy the
box.”
d. But she had no money left in her purse.
e. Once she had spent all her money on buying a present for her friends and
relatives.
f. Queen Victoria, when a little girl, was taught economical habits by her governess.
g. The people in the shop wanted to enclose the box with other articles.
h. She considered that the box would be the most appropriate gift for him.
i. As she was leaving, she remembered a cousin for whom she bought no present.
j. She was not permitted to exceed the amount.

Answer: f + a + j + e + i + b + h + d + g + c.

43. Rearrange the following sentences to make a sequenced paragraph:

a. Shakespeare was interested in the theatre and very soon became an actor.
b. Shakespeare composed both tragedies and comedies.
c. He was ranked as the greatest dramatist by 1598.
d. In 1594, he became a member of the newly formed Chamberlains Company.
e. He possessed property in Stratford and London.
f. William Shakespeare was one of the greatest poets and dramatist of the world.

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g. In the next two years, he wrote two long poems entitled “Venus and Adonis” and
“The Rape of Lucrece”.
h. He was born on April 23, 1564, in the small village of Stratford on Avon.
i. He retired sometime before 1664 and died in 1616 in Paris.
j. By 1592, he established himself as a leading dramatist of the age.

Answer: f + h + a + b + j + g + d + c + e + j.

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