Rearrange the jumbled words to make meaningful sentences:

1. left/another country/a rich merchant/his/to go/city/for trade/to
2. large/boarded/a/ship/he
3. trunks/he/gold coins/carried/precious gems/full of/and
4. began/in/huge/to rise/the/waves/sea
5. fright/screaming/with/started/people
6. hours/the/a few/stopped/later,/storm
7. its/ship/but/had/hole/in/the/a/bottom
8. seeping/water/into/ship/the/started
9. ship/didn’t/merchant/the/get off/the/sinking
10. the merchant/the ship/soon/sank/went down/it/with/and

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Answers:

1. A rich merchant left his city to go to another country for trade.
2. He boarded a large ship.
3. He carried trunks full of gold coins and precious gems.
4. Huge waves began to rise in the sea.
5. People started screaming with fright.
6. A few hours later, the storm stopped.
7. But the ship had a hole in its bottom.
8. Water started seeping into the ship.
9. The merchant didn’t get off the sinking ship.
10. Soon the ship sank and the merchant went down with it.