Sentence Restatement - Bullying and Media Attention
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Questions 16-20: Choose the option which best rewrites each sentence.
16. Bullying, a worldwide issue that continues to attract media attention regularly, manifests itself through verbal attacks, physical attacks, and more recently, cyberbullying.
a) As the media says bullying is a serious worldwide problem which creates a climate of fear through verbal or physical attacks or most importantly cyberbullying.
b) Bullying, which is a grave concern throughout the world and is reported in the media from time to time, can be in the form of mostly verbal attacks or online abuse today.
c) Bullying mostly occurs in online chat rooms today, but it can also be verbal or physical attacks which are often reported by the media.
d) Bullying, which involves verbal or physical attacks and currently online abuse, is a global problem frequently engaging the attention of the media.
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Hello! In this question, we need to find the option that best rewrites the given sentence while keeping the same meaning. Let's start by breaking down the original sentence.
Restating the Sentence
The original sentence says: 'Bullying, a worldwide issue that continues to attract media attention regularly, manifests itself through verbal attacks, physical attacks, and more recently, cyberbullying.'
Original Sentence: Bullying, a worldwide issue that continues to attract media attention regularly, manifests itself through verbal attacks, physical attacks, and more recently, cyberbullying.
Let's identify the three key components. First, bullying is a 'worldwide issue' or a global problem. Second, it 'continues to attract media attention regularly'. Finally, it manifests through verbal, physical, and 'more recently, cyberbullying'.
Now, let's evaluate each option to see which one includes all these elements accurately.
Evaluating Options
Option A mentions a 'climate of fear', which wasn't in the original text, and says 'most importantly cyberbullying' instead of 'more recently'. This changes the meaning, so A is incorrect.
~~a) climate of fear / most importantly...~~
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