Question: Directions: Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences 1 and 6.
1. Making people laugh is tricky.
At times, the intended humour may simply not come off.
Making people laugh while trying to sell them something is a tougher challenge, since the commercial can fall flat on two grounds.
There are many advertisements which do amuse but do not even begin to set the cash registers ringing.
Again, it is rarely sufficient for an advertiser simply to amuse the target audience in order to reap the sales benefit.
6. There are indications that in substituting the hardsell for a more entertaining approach, some agencies have rather thrown out the baby with the bath-water.
(c) BADC is the correct answer choice.
B connects up well with 1 to introduce the topic:
‘Use of Humour in Advertising’. There are ‘two grounds’ why an ad can be ineffective. ‘At times’ in A and ‘Again’ in D guide the reader to the “two grounds.” B–A–D are, hence, logically connected. 1-B is a good pair because ‘making people laugh’ is qualified further in B.