Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.

Question

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.

A. Here, the picture-perfect French Quarter and heritage laden Tamil streets blend into one another.

B. Across many metropolitan cities, there exists a visible conflict in how the old and the new coexist.

C. The old and new, like two different worlds, surviving side by side yet never crossing that chasm.

D. However, Puducherry stands as a striking exception, where these very contrasts are celebrated rather than endured.

1. A. BDAC (Correct answer)
2. B. ABCD
3. C. DABC
4. D. BACD

Correct Answer

Option A — BDAC

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is BDAC.

Key Points

• B opens: it states the general situation — a visible conflict between old and new across many metropolitan cities — and contains no back-reference.
• D follows, signalled by "However, Puducherry stands as a striking exception"; a contrastive connective must have something to contrast with.
• A comes next, since "Here" can only refer to Puducherry, just introduced in D.
• C closes, returning to the two-worlds image of old and new surviving side by side.
• The order is therefore B → D → A → C.

Additional Information

• Referring words lock the sequence: However needs a preceding claim, and Here needs a preceding place. Between them they fix three of the four positions.
• The opening sentence in a jumble is the one that could stand alone — no pronoun, no connective, no demonstrative pointing outside itself.
• Contrastive connectives worth watching: however, but, yet, nevertheless, on the contrary, in contrast; additive ones: moreover, furthermore, in addition, also.
• Fix the first and last sentences before ordering the middle; here identifying B as the opener alone removes half the options.