I am confused in this question for doing the extreme strategy. are we looking or not, at support /contrast in these questions. If we put naive from the options as correct choice, isn’t it opposing to young and impressionable. I mean is it the extreme version of it? Or, is it chosen because of contrast there.
Especially because naive is lacking in experience right? Could some one shed light on it please?
I am thinking a more powerful term of young and impressionable as something related to him having even more impressionable than the impression i had of him. I mean, exactly opposite of naive. Where di i get it wrong?
The way I like to think about these problems is to remind myself that there are TWO ways to contrast something.
For example, if I say Bob is rich, but…
There are actually two ways to contrast this idea right?
Bob is rich, but he’s kind of a jerk. (this is the more normal case…the first part is good…the second part is bad)
Bob is rich, but he’s not Bill Gates. (this is the other case…the first part is saying he’s got something good. The second part says but not that good!
So this problem is doing the second case.
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Another way to think is “we realized” and “we were surprised” are already contrasting, so the blank can remain the same as “young and impressionable”
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Does going the other end work in this sentence? I mean opposite and extreme version of " young and impressionable" like how more skilled he was in his young age than expected?
No, because that’s like describing a light as both “on” and “off” or a person as both “nice” and “not nice.”
good point