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[Cohesion #3]
Jumbled version of text extract
Below you will find six sentences that originally made up one coherent text extract. Your task is to rearrange the sentences so that the text becomes coherent again. Fill in the blanks with the number that reflects the position of each sentence in the text. You have already been given the sentence that occurs in position (1).

(1) It was dusk when the furniture van drew up outside Number Nine Hellebore Close.

The house looked grimly back through the gloom, as though it bore a grudge.
Somebody violent and strong had driven in six-inch nails and connected hardboard panels to the window frames.
Its windows were boarded.
A small sycamore tree was growing from the upstairs guttering.
The Queen looked stonily at her new home.


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