Question

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

Answer 1

The correct option is B that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, as a result, to make

Looking through all the options, lets focus on some of the idioms that these options use-

1. 'so...that' and 'so...as to': out of these two, 'so ... that' is the correct one

2. 'ability.... to' and 'ability.... for': here, 'ability to' is the correct one

Now, as we can see option E is incorrect as it uses 'so...as to' and A is also not correct because it skips on this idiom entirely when the context requires it. Agani, options A and E are incorrect as they use the incorrect idiom 'ability...for'. C and D lack parallelism- in C, '..to distinguish...' and 'they are unable to make' and in D, '...to distinguish...' and '...results in not making...' are not parallel when in fact they should be. Thus, option B with correct grammar and parallelism is the correct answer.