Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blanks.

According to the language experts, children should begin talking in their mother tongue rather than a foreign language which can ________ affect their comprehension abilities leading to serious language based __________ later in their lives.

  1. significantly, abilities

  2. appropriately, achievements

  3. severely, advantages

  4. adversely, problems

  5. positively, issues
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The connotation of the sentence is negative, so the words in the blanks should also be negative, hence s (1), (2) and (5) are eliminated. In option (3) the second word is positive, hence it is also eliminated. So we are left with only option (4), which is the correct answer.

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