Jumbled Sentences - Shakespeare's Publications
XAT 2014 · Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning · Medium · Para Jumbles
Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.
- Shakespeare did not personally prepare his plays for publication, and no official collection of them appeared until after his death.
- Some were probably based on actors' memories of plays.
- Many of these quartos are quite unreliable.
- A collection of his sonnets, considered by critics to be among the best ever written in English, appeared in 1609.
- Many individual plays were published during his lifetime in unauthorized editions known as quartos.
- A.
1, 2, 3, 5, 4
- B.
1, 2, 4, 5, 3
- C.
3, 1, 4, 5, 2
- D.
3, 5, 1, 2, 4
- E.
1, 4, 5, 3, 2
Answer
E
Explanation
Statement 1 introduces the topic. Statement 4 adds to official publications (sonnets in 1609). Statement 5 introduces unauthorized quartos, which 3 refers back to ('these quartos') and 2 elaborates upon.
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