Given below are six sentences. A and F are the first and the last sentences. The rest of the sentences namely B, C, D and E are jumbled. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. When they reached the great city, they were frightened by the size of it and by the crowds in the streets.
B. However, they visited every street, stopping wherever they saw a crowd.
C. They were afraid they would not even recognise him, for they had not seen him for fifteen years.
D. They felt that their son would be somewhere among those people.
E. But they did not know how to find him.
F. They hoped for a chance meeting.

Correct option is A

Option (a) is the correct order of the given sentences.
· A introduces the scenario where they enter a large city and are overwhelmed by its size and the crowds.
· D follows logically as, despite the overwhelming crowds, they harbor a feeling or intuition that their son is somewhere within this multitude, connecting their emotional state directly to the context set in A.
· E then addresses their problem directly after establishing their hope in D, stating that they do not know how to find him, which is a natural continuation of the thought that their son is somewhere in the crowds.
· C provides background information on why finding him would be particularly challenging—they haven't seen him for fifteen years, adding depth to the difficulty mentioned in E.
· B describes their action following this realization, showing that despite not knowing how to find him and being afraid of not recognizing him, they actively search the streets, engaging with the environment in hope of finding him.
· F concludes the sequence with their ongoing hope for a chance meeting, encapsulating the emotional journey from fear and overwhelm to active search and sustained hope.