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Terri of Prepped and Polished talks about 7 steps to tackle order of sentences on the ACT English test.
Seven steps to tackle order of sentences in a paragraph
- Step one, pay attention to bracketed numbers at the beginning of each sentence in a paragraph. That’s going to be a red flag, that there’s going to be a question about sentence order.
- Step two, sentence order’s determined by a clear logical flow. There has to be a flow from one sentence to the next.
- Step three, the topic of one sentence must connect to the topic of the previous sentence and the sentence that follows. So, there’s really three sentences that have to work together.
- Step four, try this sentence in different places to find the only place where that sentence will connect to what came before and what comes after, and we’ll see that on the example. There’s only one place where the sentence in question will work.
- Step five, look for a sudden shift in the action. That’s a good sign that the sentences are out of order.
- Step six, look for transition words that indicate an introduction conclusion, or that a pair of sentences should go back to back
- Step seven, definitely use process of elimination.
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