Below are five sentences taken from "Now More Than Ever," a story by British author Zadie Smith. They're not taken at random; rather, they follow one another in order in the second paragraph of the tale.
All punctuation and capitalization are in the scrambled sentences except for the period at the end. They will serve as hints. The characters the narrators mentions are Mary and Scout.
Good luck! The unscrambled sentences are below the portrait of the author in Barcelona.
1. Mary / left
2. improvement / great / came / Scout / by—a
3. so / and / active / involved / is / Scout
4. is / platforms, / than, / three-hundredth / later / say, / of / on / becomes / and / much / all / anything / person / aware / the / rarely / She
5. see / comparison, / the / time / person / been / that / was / thing / aware / way / anything / I've / of / ever / that / the / ten-million-two-hundred-and-sixth / By / was / of / earliest / to / I
Correct answers:
1. Mary left.
2. Scout came by—a great improvement.
3. Scout is so involved and active.
4. She is on all platforms, and rarely becomes aware of anything much later than, say, the three-hundredth person.
5. By way of comparison, the earliest I've ever been aware of anything was that time I was the ten-million-two-hundred-and-sixth person to see that thing.
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