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The four sentences below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the correct order and key in the sequence of numbers as your answer.
1. This meant that a coffee-house patron could, for the price of a single cup, sit for hours reading pamphlets and arguing politics with strangers of every rank.
2. Unlike taverns, which served alcohol and encouraged rowdy, often status-conscious behaviour, coffee-houses served a stimulant that sharpened rather than dulled conversation.
3. Seventeenth-century London's coffee-houses are often credited with incubating a new, more democratic form of public discourse.
4. It is this combination, cheap admission, a sobering beverage, and an unusually wide social mix, that historians point to when explaining the coffee-house's outsized role in shaping early modern public opinion.
1. This meant that a coffee-house patron could, for the price of a single cup, sit for hours reading pamphlets and arguing politics with strangers of every rank.
2. Unlike taverns, which served alcohol and encouraged rowdy, often status-conscious behaviour, coffee-houses served a stimulant that sharpened rather than dulled conversation.
3. Seventeenth-century London's coffee-houses are often credited with incubating a new, more democratic form of public discourse.
4. It is this combination, cheap admission, a sobering beverage, and an unusually wide social mix, that historians point to when explaining the coffee-house's outsized role in shaping early modern public opinion.
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Answer: 3214
Sentence 3 introduces the topic (coffee-houses and democratic discourse) and must open the paragraph. Sentence 2 contrasts coffee-houses with taverns, building the case. Sentence 1 gives a concrete consequence (cheap, long sittings, mixed-rank debate) that follows naturally from sentence 2's point about sobriety. Sentence 4 concludes by summarising the combination of factors just described ("this combination"), so it must come last. The order is 3-2-1-4.
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