Not having the technical background, many people do not succeed in correcting computer malfunctions even after making sense and reading instructions
A. many people do not succeed in correcting computer malfunctions even after making sense and reading instructionsThis answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The verb making sense requires a preposition in order to logically connect to instructions. Many people do not succeed in making sense of the instructions. If we do not add the preposition of, the sentence becomes illogical as it seems that the people are making sense.
What helps us identify this question as a Split Construction question and identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign: A split construction: Verb A + and/or + Verb B + object
B. many people do not succeed in correcting computer malfunctions even after they have read and made sense of the instructionsThis answer choice corrects the original mistake by adding the required preposition of after the verb making sense.
C. computer malfunctions are not corrected successfully by many people, even after reading and making sense of the instructionsNot having modifier incorrectly modifies computer malfunctions
D. computer malfunctions are not successfully corrected by many people, even after they have read and made sense of the instructionsNot having modifier incorrectly modifies computer malfunctions
E. many people do not succeed in correcting computer malfunctions successfully even after they have read and made sense of the instructionsUsage of
successfully with "correcting" is redundant.
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