PTE Reading
Re-order Paragraphs
PTE · Re-order Paragraphs
Arrange the sentences into a logical order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- His invention kept reliable time at sea, finally allowing navigators to pinpoint their position with confidence.
- In the 1760s, a self-taught carpenter named John Harrison solved this by building a compact, spring-driven timepiece.
- Early pendulum clocks, however, lost all accuracy on a rolling, swaying ship.
- The problem was that calculating longitude required knowing the exact time at a fixed reference point back home.
- For centuries, sailors crossing the open ocean struggled to determine how far east or west they had travelled.
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