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Zorluk: OrtaSentence Reordering and Placement

The following paragraph contains numbered sentences.

[1] In 1886, socialite Josephine Cochrane was frustrated by how often her servants chipped her fine heirlooms while washing them by hand. [2] Cochrane set to work in a shed behind her home, measuring the plates and constructing wire compartments customized to fit them. [3] She then placed these compartments inside a copper boiler that used pressurized hot water to spray the dishes clean. [4] This innovative design proved highly effective, eventually winning the highest award at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. [5] Dissatisfied with this manual chore, she first sought out mechanical alternatives, but she found that none existed.

For the sake of the logic and cohesion of the paragraph, where should Sentence 5 be placed?

  1. A
    where it is now
  2. after Sentence 1Cevap
  3. C
    after Sentence 2
  4. D
    after Sentence 3

Cevap

after Sentence 1
Placing Sentence 5 after Sentence 1 is correct because the phrase 'this manual chore' refers directly back to the action of 'washing them by hand' mentioned in Sentence 1. Furthermore, explaining that she first sought out existing mechanical options but found none provides the necessary motivation for her decision to build her own device in Sentence 2, maintaining a logical narrative flow.

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1
Identify the logical and structural markers in the sentence to be placed (Sentence 5).
Sentence 5 begins with the phrase 'Dissatisfied with this manual chore,' where the demonstrative pronoun 'this' indicates a direct reference to a previously mentioned hand-based task.
Tracking pronoun-antecedent relationships is critical for identifying logical sentence order.
2
Locate the antecedent for 'this manual chore' in the paragraph.
The antecedent is 'washing them by hand' at the end of Sentence 1.
Placing Sentence 5 immediately after Sentence 1 keeps the pronoun close to its referent and maintains coherence.
3
Verify that the chronological order of the narrative remains intact.
Placing Sentence 5 after Sentence 1 describes her search for a machine, which logically explains why she decided to build one herself in Sentence 2. The rest of the paragraph then proceeds from design (Sentence 2) to assembly (Sentence 3) to public success (Sentence 4).
Chronological coherence ensures that the development of the invention flows in a logical sequence.

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Sentence reordering requires tracking transition words, matching demonstrative pronouns to their antecedents, and maintaining chronological order.
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