CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/1999
Question . 107
DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTIONS: Arrange sentences A, B, C, and D between sentences 1 and 6 to form a logical sequence of the six sentences.
1. Making people laugh is tricky.
A. At times, the intended humour may not simply not come off.
B. Making people laugh while trying to sell them something is a tougher challenge, since the commercial can fall flat on two grounds.
C. There are many advertisements which do amuse but do not even begin to set the cash thrills ringing.
D. Again, it is rarely sufficient for an advertiser simply to amuse the target audience in order to reap the sales benefit.
6. There are indications that in substituting the hard sell for more entertaining approach, some agencies have rather thrown out the baby with the bath water.
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Para Jumbles question
(c) Sentence number 1 and B are linked together through trying to make people laugh and then is followed by A which is one of the two grounds mentioned in B, this is then followed by D which is the second ground. The last choice is C which is an adequate precursor of sentence number 6.