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Flow of Ideas - Exercise 1 - 098



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Arrange the following sentences in the order in which they would appear in a text.
 
 
A.
1
F.
6
B.
2
G.
7
C.
3
H.
8
D.
4
I.
9
E.
5
J.
10
 

 1. 

The newlyweds lived in a one-room apartment in New York City and scraped by with Frank trying to make it in show business.
 

 2. 

His father, a shoe repairman, died when Frank was still young.
 

 3. 

The Second World War interrupted his budding acting career for two years when he served in the United States Navy.
 

 4. 

To compensate for this low opinion his mother had of him, the boy went to the movies regularly and eventually joined the children’s workshop of the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
 

 5. 

They splurged two dollars on a marriage license one day in 1952 and were wed in City Hall.
 

 6. 

After a few small successes in New York, Frank and Lynn moved to Hollywood, and for the next 20 years Frank never stopped working.
 

 7. 

He was back in Pittsburgh in 1947 when he met his future wife, Lynn.
 

 8. 

Frank Talbott’s childhood in Pittsburgh did not leave happy memories.
 

 9. 

Frank and Lynn were formally engaged two months after their first date.
 

 10. 

His widowed mother, embittered by her husband’s death, convinced him that he could not do anything right.
 



 
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