CAT 2017 Slot 2 VARC · Question 27
The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.
1. Johnson treated English very practically, as a living language, with many different
shades of meaning and adopted his definitions on the principle of English common law —
according to precedent.
2. Masking a profound inner torment, Johnson found solace
in compiling the words of a language that was, in its coarse complexity and
comprehensive genius, the precise analogue of his character.
3. Samuel Johnson was
a pioneer who raised common sense to heights of genius, and a man of robust popular
instincts whose watchwords were clarity, precision and simplicity.
4. The 18th
century English reader, in the new world of global trade and global warfare, needed a
dictionary with authoritative acts of definition of words of a language that was
becoming seeded throughout the first British empire by a vigorous and practical
champion.
5. The Johnson who challenged Bishop Berkeley's solipsist theory of the
nonexistence of matter by kicking a large stone ("I refute it thus") is the same Johnson
for whom language must have a daily practical use.
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