The effect today's readers have on reading science fiction stories is, they are less likely to believe the stories could be true.
Answer: Option A
<u>Explanation:</u>
This is an era of technology and advancement. If we talk about the readers of previous era, they couldn’t really differentiate between the real ones and the unreal ones while reading stories.
But that’s not the case today, and that’s mainly because almost each one of us try to reason everything based on facts and knowledge.
We’ve sources to get to known about the genuineness of particular books and stories. So today when readers read science fiction stories they’re less likely to believe it because fiction stories in itself are not true.
This question is missing the options. I've found the complete question online. It is the following:
Complete the sentence with an appropriate intensive pronouns.
Diana found the story difficult to believe______________.
A. she
B. itself
C. herself
Answer:
Diana found the story difficult to believe herself.
Explanation:
<u>Intensive pronouns are used to emphasize the nouns they refer to.</u> We need to be careful because intensive pronouns and reflexive pronouns are actually the same - myself, yourself, himself, etc. It is the use in context that differs.
In the sentence we are supposed to complete, we need to choose the appropriate intensive pronoun among the options. <u>Since "she" is a subject pronoun, we can already eliminate it. If we use "itself", we will be emphasizing "story". However, the person who has difficulty believing the story is Diana. She is the one who should be emphasized. Therefore, we can eliminate "itself" and safely choose "herself".</u>
Diana found the story difficult to believe herself.