Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

1. In English, there is no systematic rule for the naming of numbers; after ten, we have "eleven" and "twelve" and then the teens: "thirteen", "fourteen", "fifteen" and so on.

2. Even more confusingly, some English words invert the numbers they refer to: the word "fourteen" puts the four first, even though it appears last.

3. It can take children a while to learn all these words, and understand that "fourteen" is different from "forty".

4. For multiples of 10, English speakers switch to a different pattern: "twenty", "thirty", "forty" and so on.

5. If you didn't know the word for "eleven", you would be unable to just guess it – you might come up with something like "one-teen".

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Here's how the sentences should fit together:

  1. Sentence 1 introduces the irregular naming pattern of English numbers: "eleven," "twelve," and so on.

  2. Sentence 2 explains a specific complication in the number naming: the inversion in "fourteen," where the number "four" appears before "teen."

  3. Sentence 4 describes a different pattern for multiples of ten, continuing the discussion of how numbers are named in English.

  4. Sentence 5 provides an example of the difficulty in guessing English number names if one is unfamiliar with them.

The coherent flow should be:

  1. Sentence 1: Introduces the irregular naming of numbers.
  2. Sentence 2: Adds detail about the inversion in some numbers.
  3. Sentence 4: Describes a different pattern for multiples of ten.
  4. Sentence 5: Illustrates how unfamiliarity with number names can lead to incorrect guesses.

Sentence 3 (which discusses the difficulty for children to distinguish between "fourteen" and "forty") does not fit smoothly with the rest. It introduces a specific challenge that does not align as directly with the discussion of patterns and naming conventions, making it the odd sentence out.

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