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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.

  1. A particularly interesting example of inference occurs in many single panel comics.
  2. It's the creator's participation and imagination that makes the single-panel comic so engaging and so rewarding.
  3. Often, the humor requires you to imagine what happened in the instant immediately before or immediately after the panel you're being shown.
  4. To get the joke, you actually have to figure out what some of these missing panels must be.
  5. It is as though the cartoonist devised a series of panels to tell the story and has chosen to show you only one and typically not even the funniest.

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Solution

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Step 1: Find the main topic

All sentences mention single-panel comics, but what specific aspect?

Step 2: Look for the connecting thread

Sentences 1, 3, 4, 5 all talk about inference and imagination needed by the reader to understand the comic.

From passage: "A particularly interesting example of inference occurs in many single panel comics" and "Often, the humor requires you to imagine what happened"

Step 3: Find the logical flow

1 -> introduces inference in comics

3 -> explains what reader must imagine

5 -> explains cartoonist's technique (showing one panel)

4 -> explains what reader must do (figure out missing parts)


Sentence 2 analysis:

This sentence shifts focus from reader's inference process to creator's role and what makes comics "engaging and rewarding." It's about a completely different aspect.

The other 4 sentences form a tight paragraph about how readers use inference to understand single-panel comics. Sentence 2 breaks this flow by discussing what makes comics good rather than how readers understand them.

Answer: Sentence 2 is the odd one out because it talks about creator's contribution instead of reader's inference process.

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