(5) it is a means of stirring the greatest number of people by offering them a privileged picture of common joys and sufferings. (2) for myself, i cannot live without my art. (3) if, on the other hand, i need it, it is because it cannot be separated from my fellow men, and it allows me to live, such as i am, on one level with them. (4) but i have never placed it above everything. (1) it obliges the artist not to keep himself apart; it subjects him to the most humble and the most universal truth. read the paragraph and determine the most logical order of the numbered sentences. a) 1,2,3,4,5 b) 2,3,4,1,5 c) 2,4,3,5,1 d) 4,3,5,1,2

C) 2,4,3,5,1

Explanation:

(2) For myself, I cannot live without my art. 4) But I have never placed it above everything. (3) If, on the other hand, I need it, it is because it cannot be separated from my fellow men, and it allows me to live, such as I am, on one level with them. (5) It is a means of stirring the greatest number of people by offering them a privileged picture of common joys and sufferings. (1) It obliges the artist not to keep himself apart; it subjects him to the most humble and the most universal truth.

This is the most logical and coherent order, it keeps the information unified so the reader can easily follow the idea presented. In the first sentence, the author stablishes the topic, that means, the thing he is going to write about through the paragraph. The other sentences support this sentence, they give an explanation to the statement. In this case, the author tells us the reasons he can't live without his art.

to and without are prepositions, so a, b, and d are prepositional phrases. the adverb phrase is c, about the surprise.

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