OIE exercises

◄ Linking adverbials (Conjuncts) | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 |

[Linking adverbials #6]
Jumbled version of text extract
Below you will find eight sentences that originally made up one coherent text extract. The text has three paragraphs, as indicated in the jumbled version below. Your task is to rearrange the sentences so that the text becomes coherent again. Replace the two dots [..] with the number that reflects the position of each sentence in the text (from 1-8). You have already been given the sentence that occurs in position [1].

[1] The British Crime Survey suggests that one in four crimes are officially reported, although sociologists and criminologists suggest that between 10 and 15 per cent is a more probable figure. [..] To conclude our review of criminal statistics, it is clear that official statistics on crime, like most statistics, should not be taken at face value as "facts" to be accepted uncritically. [..] However, such a difference can be reconciled, because these type of victim-based surveys can only include crimes where there is a victim who can be interviewed. [..] Thus, the "dark figure" of unrecorded crime depends on the sort of offences that are considered, and if different groups of offence categories are examined, different ratios will be found.

[..] Thus, they exclude a range of offences, such as shoplifting and stealing from work, where the non-reporting is particularly high. [..] Furthermore, some interviewees will not wish to talk about painful experiences just for the benefit of a survey interviewer. [..] The survey shows that there were twice as many burglaries as were recorded by the police, nearly five times as much wounding, twelve times as much theft from the person and, most unexpectedly perhaps, thirteen times as much vandalism or criminal damage to personal and household property.

[..] The figure of one in four crimes being reported refers to crime in general, and this ratio of recorded to unrecorded crime varies according to the particular crime.