The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.
- It was his taxpayers who had to shell out as much as $1.6bn over 10 years to employees of failed companies.
- Companies in many countries routinely engage in such activities which means that the employees are left with unpaid entitlements
- Deliberate and systematic liquidation of a company to avoid liabilities and then restarting the business is called phoenixing.
- The Australian Minister for Revenue and Services discovered in an audit that phoenixing had cost the Australian economy between 2.9bnand2.9bnand5.1bn last year.
Explanation:
This is a relatively easy question. There are a few clues that we must notice in order to get the sequence correct in shorter time.
The pronoun ‘such activities’ in statement 2 must refer to some activities. The only noun it could refer to is phoenixing, which has been introduced in sentence 3. Since statement 3 opens the idea of phoenixing, it should start the paragraph. After statement 3 we can have either 4 or 2. 2 makes more sense because it further adds more information about the idea of phoenixing. Thus 3 and 2 form a pair, and 4 and 1 form another pair because ‘his taxpayers’ in statement 1 should refer to a noun, which can be found in statement 4 in the Australian minister for Revenue and Services.
Thus 3241 form a logical sequence.
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