Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the parts in the correct order to form a meaningful sentence. The families in India / more money / on male children's education / than / on female children / are ready to spend
The families In India are ready to spend more money on male children’s education than on female children.
The rule: an English sentence normally runs subject → verb → object, and a comparison introduced by than comes after the thing being compared.
Sorting the parts:
Subject — The families in India.
Verb phrase — are ready to spend.
Object — more money.
Where the money goes — on male children's education.
Completing the comparison begun by more — than on female children.
Assembling them gives: ‘The families in India are ready to spend more money on male children's education than on female children.’
Why the others fail — each breaks a different rule:
The second makes More money the subject of are ready to spend, which is impossible: money cannot be ready to spend anything.
The third places both prepositional phrases before the verb, leaving ‘are ready to spend more money’ stranded at the end and severing the link between more and than.
The fourth reverses the sense entirely, saying more is spent on female children.
Takeaway: once you spot more and than, treat them as a pair — whatever more attaches to must reappear after than.
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