Question

(1) Luckily, coaches teach their athletes the safest way to land when diving to avoid injury. (2) Sometimes, players have to dive for balls that are more than a body's length away. (3) Volleyball is not a contact sport - unless you count contact with the floor! (4) An aggressive volleyball player knows to never let a ball hit the floor without "going all out" for it. What is the most logical order for these sentences? A) 3,2,1,4 B) 4,2,3,1 C) 2,1,3,4 D) 3,4,2,1

Answer 1

Answer: D) 3,4,2,1

Explanation: Sentence three serves as a general introduction, and the following sentences expand on the topic.

Answer 2

D) 3,4,2,1

Sentence 3 introduces the sport and the issue of contact with the floor. Sentence 4 then clarifies why a player would be in contact with the floor when playing volleyball. Sentence 2 further explains the floor contact, while sentence 1 shows that the contact does not need to be as harmful as it could be. 

When ordering sentences it is always important to look at transition words. Luckily and Sometimes must follow other sentences as these would not be good topic sentences. This can help determine sentence order.