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Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) At the end of their lives, it could truly be said that they loved each other more than on the day they first met

(B) Yet the steadfast devotion and mutual respect of the general and his lady carried them through the travails of World War II and on to the triumphs of the White House

(C) Ike and Mamie had no such misgivings as they took their vows throughout their warm and loving marriage of almost fifty-three years.

(D) Innumerable army-ordered separations, the tragic loss of their first son, and the rumors on two continents of Ike's involvement with another woman were almost devastating.

(E) The way was not always smooth.

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Important Questions on Paragraph Jumbles

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Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Mother Morag not only saw them, she deliberately came up to her cell to watch them her window overlooked the road--but this was not Dilbury, England, not the mists and freshness of the downs.

(B) There, the first sound was the bird chorus, especially larks: here, the first sound was the cawing of crows.

(C) Early every morning of each racing season, Mother Morag, Reverend Mother of the Sisters of our lady of poverty, saw the string go by, a line of horses, brown, bay, chestnut-worst of all colors in the heat: now and again a roan, or a dappled gray.

(D) In winter, there was mist, but it swirled above arid dust, because this was Calcutta, India, and the string was not Michael Traherne's Michael, a friend of royalty and other famous owners--it was John Quillan's, he who had defiantly chosen to drop out.

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Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) They had to wait in the outer kitchens, among squalid washing up, shouting, horseplay.

(B) The night round was hard, not only on the sisters but on Solomon and Gulab.

(C) Solomon often had to stand for half an hour- some restaurants seemed to take pleasure in keeping the sisters waiting and in the cold-weather months, Solomon and Gulab shivered.

(D) The sisters, too, often met with contempt.

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Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Ted raised his head,

(B) He was sitting where he had sat for most of the last two days, at the desk in the darkest comer of the darkened room.

(C) He had kept the shutters closed.

(D) There was nothing on the desk now; the photograph of him and Ella in her "lace curtain" had been shut away in the drawer, as had been the framed form of his new license.

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Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) My sense of direction wasn't clear, and at first, I didn't know where we were going.

(B) We left the car in the almost empty parking area and walked once more into a world of perfect beauty and harmony.

(C) Besides me, Rick was quiet, though tension showed in his hands on the wheel.

(D) Not until I saw the lighted bell tower of Tlaquepaque did I realize where we were.

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Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) Without a pause, he rushed outside to search the vicinity.

(B) When Rick came back, I stared, as though I'd been in a trance.

(C) I followed him into the shop, and just when we stepped inside, a sound came back from the back, as if something had been knocked over in the darkness.

(D) It was a while before he returned, his effort futile.

(E) He ran into the rear rooms, and I waited tensely among the counters, remembering the desecrated blue cloth upstairs.

(F) Rick flicked switches, and the shop blazed with light.

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Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) The boy looked puzzled and disappointed.
(B) As he walked down the path, a Park Service ranger heard him blurt out to his mother, "But it looks just like Grandma's house!"
(C) It does, and it did.
(D) In 1980, when the Eisenhower Gettysburg farm was opened to the public, a young boy and his mother emerged after a tour of the stone and brick house on the edge of the Civil War battlefield.

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Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) "Johnny, how do you keep so lean?"
(B) Mr. Leventine did not lunch there either-anyone thinking of inviting him would have been quietly persuaded not to by the club secretary, "as they would with me," John could have said, for a different reason."
(C) Mr. Leventine had once lamented. John gritted his teeth.
(D) The Bengal club had the best food east of Suez and a renowned wine cellar.
(E) "Sweat,” said John, “and I don't lunch at the Bengal Club."
(F) He detested the nickname.

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Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

(A) He was arriving tomorrow and she hadn't finished her program.
(B) The school inspector.
(C) Too late.
(D) She snuggled down in her bed, hoping to push the worry away for a little longer.
(E) She knew there was something unpleasant in her memory and that it would be in her consciousness in seconds.
(F) Sally Jones opened her eyes at seven a.m. that May 8 and looked at the rust stain on the ceiling.