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Sentence arrangement (word-order puzzle): reorder the numbered words to form a correct and natural English sentence Tokens to arrange: 1 = "not" 2 = "Hari" 3 = "away" 4 = "run" 5 = "did" Choose the correct sequence of numbers that forms a grammatically correct sentence.

Difficulty: Easy

Correct Answer: 25143

Explanation:


Given data

  • Tokens: 1 = not, 2 = Hari, 3 = away, 4 = run, 5 = did.
  • Task: Arrange the tokens to get a correct sentence.


Concept/Approach
In a simple past negative, English uses the auxiliary “did not” + base verb. Normal word order in a declarative sentence is Subject → Auxiliary → Negation → Main verb → Adverb/Complement.


Step-by-step construction
Subject = 2 (“Hari”)Auxiliary = 5 (“did”)Negation = 1 (“not”)Main verb (base form) = 4 (“run”)Particle/Adverb = 3 (“away”)Assembled sentence: “Hari did not run away.” → sequence 2-5-1-4-3 = 25143.


Option analysis
25143 — correct: “Hari did not run away.” ✅21543 — “Hari not did run away” (wrong auxiliary placement).25413 — “Hari did run not away” (misplaced negation).24513 — “Hari did away run not” (jumbled).12453 — starts with “not,” ungrammatical for a neutral declarative.


Common pitfalls

  • Using “did” with a past-tense main verb (e.g., “did ran”)—remember the base form follows “did not”.


Final Answer
25143 (Hari did not run away.)

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