Adult survivors of the child abuse traditionally have had little or no chance that they could get their symptoms recognized and treated. (A) that they could get their symptoms recognized and treated (B) to recognize and treat their symptoms. (C) of getting their symptoms recognized and treated. (D) of recognizing and treating symptoms. (E) of getting his or her symptoms recognized and treated.
Adult survivors of child abuse traditionally have had little or no chance that they could get their symptoms recognized and treated. (A) that they could get their symptoms recognized and treated (B) to recognize and treat their symptoms. (C) of getting their symptoms recognized and treated. (D) of recognizing and treating symptoms. (E) of getting his or her symptoms recognized and treated.
Hi Guys,
There are a couple of issues here, idioms among them. Your idiomatic uses of "chance" are the following:
Chance that: Ex. There is a chance that it will rain. Chance of: Ex. There is a chance of rain. To have a chance of: She has a chance of doing well. Chance to: Have you had a chance (meaning an opportunity) to look at the file? There is no idiom "have a chance that." E
A: You can have a "chance of" or a "chance to (meaning an opportunity to), but you cannot "have a chance that".
B. The intended meaning is NOT that people do not have the opportunity to recognize and treat their symptoms.
C. Correct: The people have not had the chance to get (someone) to recognize/treat their symptoms.
D. As others have noted, while there is no grammatical error, the meaning is incorrect, as people do not recognize and treat their own symptoms.
E. As has already been noted, "his" and "her" are singular pronouns, but the referent ("survivors") is plural.
We are talking about something that had "little or no chance" of happening. So I don't think it would make sense to use past tense for the verbs "recognize and treat". Hence B.
“his or her” doesn’t agree with "Adult survivors". Hence E is Out Symptoms cannot be treated. People can be treated. Hence B and D are out "little or no chance" clearly makes "could" unnecessary, because "little or no chance" leaves nothing to uncertainty, while "could" introduces probability.
Adult survivors of the child abuse traditionally have had little or no chance that they could get their symptoms recognized and treated. (A) that they could get their symptoms recognized and treated (B) to recognize and treat their symptoms. (C) of getting their symptoms recognized and treated. (D) of recognizing and treating symptoms. (E) of getting his or her symptoms recognized and treated.
C for me First, no chance of is a correct idiom Second, their clearly refer to survivors Third, to recognize distorts the meaning - survivors are not the ones who recognize their symptoms.
Not B cos acc to me it changes the meaning of the original sentence.
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