Rearrange the phrases to form a meaningful sentence:
(A) in the region
(B) had percolated into the underground water
(C) thus causing a water crisis
(D) the pollutants from the factory
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Rearrange the phrases to form a meaningful sentence:
(A) in the region
(B) had percolated into the underground water
(C) thus causing a water crisis
(D) the pollutants from the factory
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Solution
Option 1 -> "in the region the pollutants from the factory thus causing a water crisis had percolated..." - incorrect grammatical structure with misplaced subject.
Option 2 -> "had percolated into the underground water..." - starts with a verb without a subject, grammatically incomplete.
Option 3 -> "thus causing a water crisis had percolated..." - begins with a consequence phrase before establishing cause, illogical flow.
Option 4 -> "the pollutants from the factory had percolated into the underground water thus causing a water crisis in the region" - proper subject-verb-object structure with logical cause-effect flow.
Hence, Option 4: (D), (B), (C), (A) -> This arrangement creates a grammatically correct and logically coherent sentence: the subject (pollutants from the factory) is followed by the action (percolated into underground water), then the consequence (causing a water crisis), and finally the location (in the region). This follows the natural cause-and-effect pattern of English sentence construction -> correct