A new study suggests that the conversational pace of everyday life may be so brisk it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make sense of speech. A. it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make B. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, as a result, to make C. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, the result of this, they are unable to make D. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words, and results in not making E. as to hamper the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words, resulting in being unable to make
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I took B because the other choices contained flaws.
However, I have a gerneral question about the use of "it". I thought that "it" could possibly refer to study instead of pace. Is this ruled out by "that", which introduces a realtive clause? I know it is not asked in the question but in other SC problems there are a lot of unclear referent issues...
You can accept certain ambiguity in pronouns. They should be your last split when you eliminate the choices, except if there is a non-sense pronoun.
Also, notice that "it" is parallel with "conversacional pace". Both are subjects in their clauses. When that happens, there is less ambiguity. But the sentences must be parallel.
+1 B
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A new study suggests that the conversational pace of everyday life may be so brisk it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make sense of speech. A. it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make B. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, as a result, to make C. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, the result of this, they are unable to make D. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words, and results in not making E. as to hamper the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words, resulting in being unable to make
I would go for C. so...that idiom they represent the children which removes the confusion
PS: please underline the phrase.
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C would have been the best option as vannu said above, but the phrase "the result of this" is incomplete. Is that a typo? If not, C is wrong. I would pick D in that case
B makes sense as the intention is to say that ability is hampered and not completely gone.
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A new study suggests that the conversational pace of everyday life may be so brisk it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make sense of speech. A. it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make B. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, as a result, to make C. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, the result of this, they are unable to make D. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words, and results in not making E. as to hamper the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and
A,E are gone for idiom: ability to
D has the problem: the conversational pace of everyday life hampers the ability of children to .. and results in not making sense of speech (of whom children are not implicit in here) Also the intention is to say hampering the ability not loosing it.
C says they are unable => extreme and changes the meaning
hampering the ability doesn't imply that the person doesn't have the ability. If original question intend to say that they are unable, then C would be the correct choice.
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c is wrong because "to make" is incorrect in C. ".......hampers the ability...., as a result, to make sense of speech"
the last phrase itself doesnt make sense.
And also, if the ability to distinguish sounds and words is hampered, speech will not make sense. To make sense of speech, every requirement must be fulfilled properly. If children distinguish between words and sounds partially, they will still not be able to make sense of speech. Go with the holistic meaning of the phrase.
A new study suggests that the conversational pace of everyday life may be so brisk it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make sense of speech. A. it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make B. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, as a result, to make C. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, the result of this, they are unable to make D. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words, and results in not making E. as to hamper the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words, resulting in being unable to make
I go with D. ( B and D left but B doesn't sound right to me).
A new study suggests that the conversational pace of everyday life may be so brisk it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make sense of speech. A. it hampers the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words and, the result is, to make ((for distinguishing is incorrect idiom)) B. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, as a result, to make (and..to make is awkard) C. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, the result of this, they are unable to make (best answer also, some children to distinguish…they are unable to.) D. that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words, and results in not making – (ignore the middle phrases, conversational pace of everyday life results in not making – what ????, the children should not be able to..) E. as to hamper the ability of some children for distinguishing discrete sounds and words, resulting in being unable to make (for distinguishing is incorrect idiom)
I took B because the other choices contained flaws.
However, I have a gerneral question about the use of "it". I thought that "it" could possibly refer to study instead of pace. Is this ruled out by "that", which introduces a realtive clause? I know it is not asked in the question but in other SC problems there are a lot of unclear referent issues...
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