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Could you help me? Which suits better for the blank?
If you want to pursue a career as a writer, you shouldn’t overdescribe. Good description consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else. These details are usually the first ones that come to mind. If you decide later on that you’d like to change, add, or delete, you can do so—it’s what ( ) was invented for.
A) the computer
B) rewriting
My guess was A). But the answer I was given was B). I thought that this paragraph was saying that you don’t have to worry about revising your sentences later because the computer makes it possible in an instant.
Top answer
B is correct. The computer wasn't invented for editing text.
- B is correct.
- The computer wasn't invented for editing text.
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Personally, I think it's a rather poor question. Of course, the computer wasn't literally invented for that specific purpose, but with normal licence such a thing might be said. If I read sentence (A), I would not notice anything amiss. If I was answering this question, I would in fact choose (B) because on balance I do think it is a "better" answer, but a decision to mark (A) wrong might be c
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I agree - it's a poor question. It doesn't really make sense to say that 'rewriting' was invented by anyone - any more than I would say that swimming was invented by fish. It's just something that we do
Arguably, the first computer, planned by Alan Turing and implemented by Tommy Flowers, was invented to rewrite language. It was invented to decrypt enemy messages. But that's
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