Question

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

$\left(1\right)$ People can get infected by handling reptiles and then touching their mouths or an open cut.
$\left(2\right)$ At first, they look the perfect pets: exotic, quiet and tidy.
$\left(3\right)$ A study estimates that in $1995,$ there were as many as $6,700$ reptile-caused salmonella infections.
$\left(4\right)$ But lizards and other pets can harbour a salmonella bacterium that makes people sick.

• A. $2314$
• B. $2341$
• C. $1342$
• D. $2431$

Answer 1

The correct option is D $2431$

In noun/pronoun relationships, we know that the noun comes first and then is referred later using suitable pronouns.
Sentence $\left(4\right)$ contains the noun phrase “a salmonella bacterium” and Sentence $\left(3\right)$ contains the noun phrase “salmonella infections”. Since the phrase “a salmonella bacterium” introduces the bacterium, it should logically precede the phrase “salmonella infections”.
Therefore, Sentence $\left(4\right)$ should come before Sentence $\left(3\right).$

If we observe the given options, we find that only option $\left(D\right)2431$ satisfies the above order.