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Unlike cellular phones and personal computers, there is a difficulty on the part of many people to adapt to other modern technologies.
A. Unlike cellular phones and personal computers, there is a difficulty on the part of many people to adapt to other modern technologies.
B. Unlike cellular phones and personal computers, which many people are comfortable using, they have difficulty adapting to other modern technologies.
C. Unlike cellular phones and personal computers, other modern technologies bring out a difficulty for many people to adapt to them.
D. Many people, though comfortable using cellular phones and personal computers, have difficulty adapting to other modern technologies.
E. Many people have a difficulty in adapting to other modern technologies, while they are comfortable using cellular phones and personal computers.
A. Unlike cellular phones and personal computers, there is a difficulty on the part of many people to adapt to other modern technologies.
B. Unlike cellular phones and personal computers, which many people are comfortable using, they have difficulty adapting to other modern technologies.
C. Unlike cellular phones and personal computers, other modern technologies bring out a difficulty for many people to adapt to them.
D. Many people, though comfortable using cellular phones and personal computers, have difficulty adapting to other modern technologies.
E. Many people have a difficulty in adapting to other modern technologies, while they are comfortable using cellular phones and personal computers.
10 Jun 2016, 11:18
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Hi atptennis15 , I am giving it a try. Hope it will be of help.
Meaning of the sentence- Many people easily adapt to phones and personal computers, but these people find difficulty adapting to other modern technologies.
A. Unlike cellular phones and personal computers, there is a difficulty on the part of many people to adapt to other modern technologies. 'Phones and computers' are compared with 'difficulty'
B. Unlike cellular phones and personal computers, which many people are comfortable using, they have difficulty adapting to other modern technologies. 'Phones and computers' are compared with 'they (people)'
C. Unlike cellular phones and personal computers, other modern technologies bring out a difficulty for many people to adapt to them. The meaning of this sentence implies that 'modern technologies intentionally bring out difficulties for people, and its not the human being who finds the technology to be difficult'. This is not the intended meaning.
D. Many people, though comfortable using cellular phones and personal computers, have difficulty adapting to other modern technologies. The sentence is right for below reasons:-
1) 'though comfortable using cellular phones and personal computers' correctly modifies 'many people'
2) Many people
3) Intended contrast that many people find modern technologies to be difficult while there people are comfortable with phones and computers
E. Many people have a difficulty in adapting to other modern technologies, while they are comfortable using cellular phones and personal computers. 'find it difficult to adapt' is preferred over 'difficulty in adapting'
Hi! chetan2u, do you think 'they' doesn't have clear reference? It could refer to 'people' or 'many people'.
If it refers to people, then it might be referring to all the people, and it is not the intended meaning
If it refers to 'many people', then the sentence is giving the intended meaning .
Or I am thinking too much??!!!
04 Mar 2020, 21:09
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In C, "bring out a difficulty" is quite unidiomatic and awkward. The modifiers at the end, "for many people to adapt to them," are also problematic; the infinitive ("to adapt") is often used to describe purpose, and this phrase makes it sound almost like these technologies create difficulty with the purpose of forcing people to adapt. Beyond that, and perhaps more importantly, the word "them" at the end creates significant ambiguity in its pronoun reference.
In E, "have a difficulty" is unidiomatic as well as sort of illogical -- what singular difficulty do people have? Worse, the "while" is at best ambiguous. It is true that "while" can mean something like "though," but in this usage it also does sound like it means "at the same time." (Do these people only struggle with technology when they're on the phone?) Even if there exists a reading that is logical, the presence of another plausible reading that is illogical can be a problem. Finally, the "they" here is once again not great.
D is a beautiful answer. There's no reason to go hunting and straining to pick anything else.
