Question

Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer

• A. In English, there is no systematic rule for the naming of numbers; after ten, we have "eleven" and "twelve" and then the teens: "thirteen", "fourteen", "fifteen" and so on.
• B. Even more confusingly, some English words invert the numbers they refer to: the word "fourteen" puts the four first, even though it appears last.
• C. It can take children a while to learn all these words, and understand that "fourteen" is different from "forty".
• D. For multiples of 10, English speakers switch to a different pattern: "twenty", "thirty", "forty" and so on.
• E. If you didn't know the word for "eleven", you would be unable to just guess it you might come up with something like "one-teen".

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

Sentence 3 is an outlier, deviating from the primary subject of the other sentences. The remaining sentences examine the naming conventions of numbers in English, emphasizing inconsistencies and variations. In contrast, sentence 3 focuses on children's learning process and their understanding of number distinctions, such as between "fourteen" and "forty." The other sentences collectively discuss the intricacies of English number nomenclature, making sentence 3 somewhat tangential to the paragraph's central theme.

Therefore, the accurate choice is (C): It can take children a while to learn all these words, and understand that "fourteen" is different from "forty".