Verbal Ability – Odd One Out – People who study children’s language
Verbal Ability – Odd One Out
Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.
Question
1. People who study children’s language spend a lot of time watching how babies react to the speech they hear around them.
2. They make films of adults and babies interacting, and examine them very carefully to see whether the babies show any signs of understanding what the adults say.
3. They believe that babies begin to react to language from the very moment they are born.
4. Sometimes the signs are very subtle – slight movements of the baby’s eyes or the head or the hands.
5. You’d never notice them if you were just sitting with the child, but by watching a recording over and over, you can spot them.
Answer
3
Solution
After reading all the statements from CAT 2017 – Verbal Ability – Odd One Out, we can infer that, Statements 1, 2, 4 and 5 talk about how people study children’s language. Statement 3 goes off the track by saying that babies can understand language.
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