Re-arranging

 

Re-arranging


Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.                     10

i. In his later years in prison, he met President P.W. Botha and his successor de Klerk.

ii. He was behind bars when an uprising broke out in the huge township of Soweto in 1976 and when others erupted in violence in the 1980s.

iii. “As I finally walked through those gates … I felt even at the age of 71 that my life was beginning anew.

iv. My 10,000 days of imprisonment were at last over,”

v. Mandela wrote of that day.

vi. He was released on 11 February 1990, walking away from the Victor Verster prison hand-in-hand with his wife Winnie.

vii. The event was watched live by millions of television viewers across the world. viii. The regime realized it was time to negotiate.

ix. It was Mandela to whom it turned.

x. It was really a great event in the history of the world. 

   2. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.                     10

i. He is a rebel poet and our national poet.

ii. He lost his father in his childhood.

iii. So He drew the attention of the public.

iv. He was called Dukhu Mia for his sorrow.

v. Nazrul Islam was born on the 20th May,1899 in Burdwan.

vi. As a result his mother fell in great financial problem.

vii. You will have heard the name of Kazi Narul Islam.

viii. He spent his early life in great hardship.

ix. One day this Dukhu Mia became a great poet.

x. He could sing, dance and compose verses even in his childhood.

.     Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.                     10

  • As he was leaving the jar in despair, he noticed a heap of pebbles nearby.
  • At last he found a jar in a garden. There was some water in the jar.
  • But it was at the bottom  and out of his reach.
  • He flew from one place to another in search of water.
  • He took some pebbles and dropped the pebbles into the jar.
  • Then he hit upon a plan.
  • A crow was very thirsty and wanted to drink.
  • When the water came to the mouth of the jar the crow drank his fill.
  • As each pebble went down, the water in the jar rose up little by little.
  • The crow tried to turn the jar over and over again. But it had no effect.

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