Please, Find a different one among them

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First off, (a)this speaker is incredible for its small size. (b)It’s very easy to take along with you. The size advantage is one thing, but the sound quality seals the deal. There is almost no distortion, even when playing music at MAX volume.  Once (c)it’s charged, (d)it can play up to eight hours.  Plus, (e)it’s a real bargain!  My friend bought a different speaker that had nearly identical features, but it cost $30 more. I truly believe the KS-Mini ? is a great choice. This is a question in a high school here in my country and the question is, "Find a different one" and I think that the answer is (b) but the answer is (c) but I am still confused with the answer. (c) is a battery? And then what is (b)? I think that (b) is a fake subject and the real subject is to take along with you. What do you native English speakers think?Thank you so much as usual in advance!

MrGuedes · Accepted Answer

I am not a native English speaker, but I shall leave my comments too.

I do not understand what is the point of the exercise. What do you mean by 'finding a different one'?
Anyway, I do not see any difference between the signalled words, other than that (a) says 'this speaker' and all the others are just 'it'. But they all refer to the same thing: the speaker.

Hans51(c) is a battery?

Indeed, to be accurate, (c) should refer to the battery, because it is the battery that is charged. However, since the battery is nowhere referred to in the text, since there is no evident change in the subject of any sentence, and since it is immediately followed by another it (d) which clearly must refer to the speaker (because is it the speaker that plays, and not the battery), I would assume that the text still refers to the speaker in (c). Thus, I find to reason to believe that (c) is the different whatever.

Hans51I think that (b) is a fake subject and the real subject is to take along with you.

I don't think so. Why would that be? 'It' begins the sentence, and is what is being qualified (or what 'performs' the 'action' of 'being easy to take along'). I can find no reason that it would not be the subject of the sentence. I have no idea what you would call the 'to take along with you', but I don't think that's a subject. It makes no sense.

To sum up, I can't find any difference, and I can't understand what you are really supposed to do in that exercise. I would have probably chosen (a), but only because it uses different words (but if that's just it, you don't even need to know the language to do the exercise: any non-English five-year-old could do it).

AlpheccaStars · Answer

b, c, d, and e are all pronouns.
a is a noun phrase.

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