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 particularly interesting example of inference occurs in many single panel comics.
- It's the creator's participation and imagination that makes the single-panel comic so engaging and so rewarding.
- Often, the humor requires you to imagine what happened in the instant immediately before or immediately after the panel you're being shown.
- To get the joke, you actually have to figure out what some of these missing panels must be.
- 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.
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 particularly interesting example of inference occurs in many single panel comics.
- It's the creator's participation and imagination that makes the single-panel comic so engaging and so rewarding.
- Often, the humor requires you to imagine what happened in the instant immediately before or immediately after the panel you're being shown.
- To get the joke, you actually have to figure out what some of these missing panels must be.
- 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.
Entered answer:
Solution
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.