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Can anyone help me to paraphrase those sentences with the given words in brackets?Please help me, I really appreciate for your help.

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That is brutal. You have my sympathy. I normally wait for a regular to say, "You try first", but dang. And the test maker should go back to school himself.

1. I don't quite see how to work in the introductory sentence adverb phrase. As a native speaker with some facility in this sort of thing, I find this sentence challenging.

Unemployment is in some degree attributable to technology.

2. This is a faulty sentence in that there is a lack of parallelism in the list. There are two predicate adjectives yoked to "are", and then we are supposed to conveniently forget about "are" and accept a second verb, "do not get", as the third item. It should be "they are highly productive, extremely precise, and tireless."

In terms of productivity, precision, and indefatigability, machines are clearly superior to human labor. (It's nice to be able to use an eight-syllable word once in a while.)

3. This sentence has two fatal errors, the same one as in sentence 2, and an even worse one in that factory workers and phone operators are not jobs.

Employees like factory workers and phone operators have become dispensable because their jobs are labor-intensive, repetitive or routine. (I would not say that "dispensable" is the right word.)

4. There is a comma missing after "machines".

Armed with self-learning capabilities, machines are becoming more efficient at what they do, further marginalizing human workers.

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