What’s the role and meaning of “advantages” in this context?
What’s the role and meaning of “advantages” in this context?
The passage below is from Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf.
Reading-brain circuits are shaped and developed by both natural and environmental factors, including the medium in which reading is acquired and developed. Each reading medium advantages certain cognitive processes over others. Translation: the young reader can either develop all the multiple deep-reading processes that are currently embodied in the fully elaborated, expert reading brain; or the novice reading brain can become “short-circuited” in its development; or it can acquire whole new networks in different circuits.
What I want to ask is what is the role and meaning of the underlined “advantages”. It seems transitive verb to me. But since that usage is rare and unusual, I want to make sure whether I am right or wrong.
Am I right?
If I am right, let me do paraphrase that sentence as follows: Each reading medium have its own advantage over others in certain cognitive processes.
What do you think?
If I am wrong, can you overhaul my thought and refurbish it?
Top answer
Stenka25 It seems transitive verb to me. Yes. Stenka25 If I am right, let me do paraphrase that sentence as follows: Each reading medium have its own advantage over others in certain cognitive processes.
- Stenka25 It seems transitive verb to me.
- Yes.
- Stenka25 If I am right, let me do paraphrase that sentence as follows: Each reading medium have its own advantage over others in certain cognitive processes.
- Not quite.
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Stenka25It seems transitive verb to me.
Yes.
Stenka25If I am right, let me do paraphrase that sentence as follows: Each reading medium have its own advantage over others in certain cognitive processes.
Not quite. It means "Each reading medium gives certain cognitive processes an advantage over other cognitive proce
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