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Rearrange the following phrases into a meaningful sentence. The beginning of the sentence has been given below. Read the options and find out which of the four combinations is correct:

The point is that both ecology and resource management science...

(A) and mechanistic worldview shaped by the utilitarian premise

(B) of the industrial age, had more to say

(C) about the human mission to extract rather than to conserve

(D) that developed under the conventional

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 3

Option 1: (B), (A), (D), (C) -> Creates a disjointed sentence starting with "of the industrial age, had more to say" which doesn't logically connect to the opening phrase.

Option 2: (D), (A), (C), (B) -> Places "of the industrial age, had more to say" at the end, breaking the natural flow and separating the verb phrase from its object.

Option 3: (D), (A), (B), (C) -> Creates the logical flow: "...science that developed under the conventional and mechanistic worldview shaped by the utilitarian premise of the industrial age, had more to say about the human mission to extract rather than to conserve."

Option 4: (C), (D), (B), (A) -> Starts with "about the human mission" which cannot directly follow the opening phrase, creating a grammatically incorrect structure.


Hence, Option 3: (D), (A), (B), (C) -> This arrangement creates a complete, grammatically correct sentence where: (D) introduces the relative clause modifying "science," (A) completes the description "conventional and mechanistic worldview," (B) concludes the time period and introduces the main verb, and (C) specifies what they "had more to say about" -> correct

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