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Rearrange the following parts to form a meaningful sentence:

A. five O'clock had hardly struck

B. when Bessie brought a candle into my closet

C. and found me already up and neatly dressed

D. on the morning of nineteenth of January,

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 3

The structure is hardly had struck when, so A must precede B. D supplies the time adverbial and sits after A. B introduces Bessie's entry and C adds the second verb found, joined by and. The order is A, D, B, C.

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