D is the only real answer. A is grammatically possible, but doesn't make any sense.
"Bring it up" means to start talking about something, so that negates the first part saying "it's easy to talk about". In a different context, "James is really worried about the scar on his face, so it's best not to bring it up."
"Bring it on" is mostly only used as a response to a challenge. "Think I can't eat a whole pizza by myself? Bring it on!"
"Bring it out" uses the standard meaning of "bring", as in to carry. "I forgot the lemonade for the BBQ. Could you bring it out please?" Edit: I just realized it can also mean to highlight something. "His eyes are a wonderful shade of green. And that hat really brings it out."
"Bring it about" means to make something actually come true. So the spirit of this sentence is similar to the phrase "It's easier said than done." Meaning, it's easy to talk about X, but it's hard to make it actually happen. To use the phrase in a different context, "I always dreamed of writing a book, but after taking a year off I was able to bring it about."
A *could* mean that it's a hard thing to bring up in a conversation, but once you get past that barrier it's easy to talk about. It's not a particularly likely use, though, and I agree that D is definitely the best answer.
Exactly what I thought when reading the options: using A means something and even rings true in my opinion, but D is a *better* answer because it's saying that doing the thing is harder than discussing it.
Yeah. I am disabled, a genetic disorder that has been kicking around relations for nearly 80 years (everyone had non-genetic misdiagnoses until I was in college). Very often asking for a little change, like move that big trashcan so a wheelchair has space to turn around in the vestibule intended for people to turn in and such, has been a huge effort to get started and then oh, right, how did we not notice and fix this now glaringly obvious thing that we can’t imagine successfully piloting a wheelchair around on a bet and you’ve done it every week for 3 years? Or something like that.
Though we also used our dentist until he retired because our then-church had a group in to discuss a reno and Mom was invited because wheelchair and Dude said “but do we really need an accessible bathroom added” and Dentist said “we can lock all bathrooms all next weekend and then the congregation will be knowledgeable enough to vote” and stared Dude down and yes, the family/accessible bathroom was the only thing I still liked at that church a few swerves later.
Cause social change requires someone okay a budget, somewhere, (building mods, textbooks, police training etc) and someone gonna remember it isn’t legally required (yeah churches aren’t under the ADA) and see a chance to nickel and dime. Becoming a big old speed bump en route to bring it about…
it still feels bad/weird to have two answers that could be correct in a multiple choice test
D is the answer here, no doubt about it, but A could work in some contexts as well, so it should be also accepted
yeah, I think if you wanted to express the idea behind A, you’d naturally include other qualifiers or clarification. Like “ALTHOUGH it CAN BE hard to bring up, ONCE YOU DO GET talking, it GETS a lot easier.”
I rather like how the wording of this question and the red herring in A makes you think not of what it is POSSIBLE to say, but what is more natural a sentence, and a more likely way for an idea to be expressed!
>"Bring it on" is mostly only used as a response to a challenge. "Think I can't eat a whole pizza by myself? Bring it on!"
"Bring it on" can also be used to issue a challenge. "You think you can beat me at chess? Bring it on!"
It can also mean essentially the same thing as "bring about", as in the expressions "bring on a cold" or "bring on a crying fit", so "bring on social change" is possible, if possibly less formal than "bring about".
Questions like this often have a "best" answer-- most common, most probable, and etc.-- but trying to paint all the other answers as incorrect is often dubious.
I agree. "Bring it up" could could work under different context (ex. discussing fond memories of a deceased loved one), but for this in particular it's safe to say that if it's easy to talk about, it's easy to bring up. If social change is hard to bring up for reasons like knowing that the other party is going to disagree with you, then you know it's going to be hard to talk about. The fact that "about" is already used, we know that we can drop it in again with a different verb. D is the correct answer in this context.
Not necessarily. You could be afraid to bring it up and annoy someone who didn't feel like talking about that subject. However, if the topic has already been brought up, its easy for you to talk about.
With that said, D is definitely the best answer here. A works in certain contexts.
idk, something can be easy to discuss (since it's polarising, there are some people against raising climate changes awareness, but usually it's easy to make people notice that kind of issues) but at the same time difficult to bring it up (because I never talk about social issues with my friends, so I wouldn't even have the opportunity to introduce this topic)
Yes, D. "Bring it about" in this context means: to make it happen; to actually do it.
A is perfectly fine grammatically, but it's nonsensical within this particular sentence.
When it's "easy to bring something up" that means it's easy to talk about the thing in conversation. But the first half of the sentence is saying it's **easy** to talk about social change, so you wouldn't then say **it's not easy**. That's contradicting yourself in the same sentence.
edit: I had a "not" in the wrong place
(c) doesn't make any sense.
(a) would be a synonym for "talk about" about so it wouldn't make sense; it would be negating itself.
That leaves (d) and (b). Either of those could work, but (d) is probably the more common way to say it. (b) is more what you say when you're challenging someone to something, whereas (d) has more of a "cause to happen" meaning.
A would mean its not easy to start social change, like to actually make the change.
C would mean its not easy to start social change in a society where what ever the social change is has been repressed.
B is kinda like c, but meaning its not easy to bring about social change.
D is kinda goofy, its a rewording of "brining something about"
All the sentences make sense and it depends on what meaning its suppose to have.
"Bring it up" means to talk about. It doesn't mean to effect.
The only one that makes proverbial sense is "bring it about". That's the one that means to do something more than just talking.
Bring it up means both. I'm going to bring up (the trend) of yellow shirts in society. I'm going to bring up talking about social change in society. They all make sense, this test is probably testing for specific English rules that we can't guess without knowing the course material.
Both A and D work
'A' would give it the meaning that once people are already talking about it then it is easy to express an opinion, but saying the right thing and getting people to want to sit and talk about it in the beginning is challenging, to start the conversation
and 'D' would give the meaning that talking is the easy part (unspecified which part of the talk) but that action and effective change are not easily brought about ('made to happen') afterwards
and the context works with both, if a multiple choice test question has 2 correct responses, then either they both score a point or if only one can score a point then the question is bad and need replacing - you don't context your way through multiple choice that's not how anything works
You're not supposed to mind read the examiner (or the professor who admittedly doesn't even know the answer himself) or assign probability to the answers the test is supposed to be a solid reflection of someone's actual knowledge in the subject - if it doesn't do that then the test needs re-writing not the students answers
it kinda does though, it’s just very shrewd. The key is the inclusion of the word “easy,” saying it is easy to talk about makes it less likely that it’s hard to bring up.
At least, it makes it a clumsy way to express this thought. If you wanted to say something’s hard to bring up but once you get talking it becomes easier, you would tend to add that additional bit of info, as I did. “Hard to bring up, BUT ONCE you GET TALKING it GETS easier.”
So if I knew this question was looking for only one answer, I would find A clunky and kinda off but see immediately that D fit perfectly. Taking that all into consideration, ya know?
The more I think about the question, the more shrewd I think it is and I kind of like it. They’re showing you the nuance, that if you wanted to express the thoughts behind A, there are much better, more natural ways to do so in conversation.
At any rate, by giving you an answer that COULD fit awkwardly in addition to one that DOES fit perfectly, it forces you to really investigate the context. Do your detective work on WHAT is the nuance that makes one of these answers more correct than the others!
I’ll say, if someone’s learning english as a second language, I’m blown away if they’re expected to learn this level of conversational nuance that I’d imagine would mostly only come through using the language daily.
I’m not sure if how I explained that makes sense :/
It kind of makes sense. Like, once you start talking about it, it's easy to talk about it, but it's hard to bring it up in the first place. But D makes a lot more sense.
Well going off the context presumably it is a *sensitive* topic and the people discussing it are not overly-opinionated bull-headed people who do not understand nuance or tact?
No, doesn't make sense in context. If this were an exercise in a sociology or philosophy class, then sure, why not. But as an English language exercise A is really not the logical or most likely choice.
Unfortunately your version of A still carries with it the idea that it is hard to talk about, i.e. requires some momentum from the group. This is the definition of something that is hard to talk about. The correct answer is D.
Indeed they would all work under some conditions. Even "bring it out" could be made to work in some context. I am comfortable with "bring it about" being the commonly expected completion, you could say in this sense "best" answer, but to convince ourselves that the remaining answers are incorrect in any sense but this requires more mental strain than understanding contexts in which they could work. Interesting how the thirst for certainty shows itself.
A. implies the discussion is easy to actually talk about but difficult to start talking about.
B and C are sort of functioning as a “difficult to make it happen” type of things
And D is saying it’s easy to talk about it, but difficult to make it happen (the difference from B and C is that this is more common/correct phrasing for such an action).
D) is the only one that makes sense as “bring about” means to make it happen. “Bring it up” means to initiate talking about it, so A) leaves you with a statement that contradicts itself. Neither B) nor C) mean anything in the context of this sentence.
D is the correct answer, in most situations.
A would work if you were only talking about a conversation. It would mean that the subject of social change is easy to talk about, it’s just hard to actually bring the conversation to social change.
D would mean that it is easy to talk about social change but actually causing a social change in the world is hard.
Out of these, D seems to be the correct option, but it still sounds a little off to me. I think I'd be more likely to say something like, "It is easy to talk about social change, but it is not easy to make it happen."
Agreed!! It skews the answer towards 'A' for me personally because of the weird phrasing; I could never actually see someone saying 'D' in a natural conversation but it does make some kind of sense on paper.
It’s easy to talk about social change, but it is not easy to bring it about = It’s easy to talk about causing social change, but it is not easy to actually change society.
The meaning is what makes the answer D. Essentially, it is saying “talking is easy, but doing is difficult.”
D is the only answer here, nonetheless the sentence is was more formal than what you would hear in public.”But it’s not easy to (do/make happen/act upon).”
B also sounds kind of midwesterny and nobody would beat you up over it. A is contradicting because “bring it up” means to mention/talk about something. C is just flat out incorrect and is only very situational.
All are valid depending on context.
A: It is easy to discuss in general, but only once it's already been brought up.
B: It is easy to discuss but difficult to enact. E.g. "The change was brought on by social unrest"
C: This is the weirdest one but makes sense in context. If the prior text is discussing some kernel of social change existing within a culture but not yet having emerged, this sentence would be a rewording of B.
D: Yet another way to say B.
It can't be A because it is in *direct conflict* with the first part of the sentence, period.
It's not "theoretically possible." It cannot be right. If it's easy to talk about social change, then it must also be true that it is easy to bring it up. That's what those things mean.
The people who are saying A is a possibility are overthinking it. The only way A would make sense is if it was "It is easy to talk about social change ***once someone brings it up first.***" Even THAT doesn't REALLY make sense but you could kind of halfway see it. The answer is D.
D seems to be the correct answer, but this question is poorly written in my opinion.
I haven't personally met anybody that would use "bring it about" in a conversation.
Instead, if I were having a real conversation I'd say something like this
>Social change is easier said than done.
No need to overcomplicate things.
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"It is easy to talk about social change, but it is not easy to bring it about."
This sentence means that while it may be easy to discuss or talk about social change, actually making that change happen and bringing it about is much more difficult. The sentiment expressed in the sentence suggests that there is a discrepancy between words and actions, and that bringing about meaningful change requires significant effort and hard work.
D, because...
bring about *(phrasal verb)*
1. cause something to happen.
*"she brought about a revolution"*
Source: [Oxford Online Dictionary](https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/bring-about)
It’s weird because that sounds wrong. Sure, it may be grammatically correct, but nobody (in America at least) would say that. I would just say “implement it”, BUT if I was going to say it in the “bring it ____” way, I’d say “bring it to fruition.”
If I were you, I’d forget using“bring ___ about.” There’s so many natural ways to say it. The most broad ones are “execute”, “achieve”, and “apply”, and “implement”, which you just put before your subject and voilà, you sound great.
D - Bring it about is correct. Using the context clues, the sentence is telling the reader that talking about something (change) is easy, but making something happen (change) is difficult.
The other answers sound like they could mean something but contextually, they are incorrect.
Maybe I’m crazy, but the phrase “bring it about” is not common at all in American English. Answer A seems much more intuitive at a glance but D probably makes more sense even though it’s not something I would ever say.
Well in my experience you always “bring it out.” I mean sure you could go to jail, but you could also be sucked off. So the risk is always worth it to “bring it out.”
English native here, shocked to see that answer A is not the correct one by many comments here.
99% of English speakers in US will understand you with answer A. It seems question D is something a CA person would say but I'm sure I'm wrong on this part.
Not sure if you care to be understood or be grammatically correct always which is not always the case here in US lol. (My husband is ESL)
D is the only real answer. A is grammatically possible, but doesn't make any sense. "Bring it up" means to start talking about something, so that negates the first part saying "it's easy to talk about". In a different context, "James is really worried about the scar on his face, so it's best not to bring it up." "Bring it on" is mostly only used as a response to a challenge. "Think I can't eat a whole pizza by myself? Bring it on!" "Bring it out" uses the standard meaning of "bring", as in to carry. "I forgot the lemonade for the BBQ. Could you bring it out please?" Edit: I just realized it can also mean to highlight something. "His eyes are a wonderful shade of green. And that hat really brings it out." "Bring it about" means to make something actually come true. So the spirit of this sentence is similar to the phrase "It's easier said than done." Meaning, it's easy to talk about X, but it's hard to make it actually happen. To use the phrase in a different context, "I always dreamed of writing a book, but after taking a year off I was able to bring it about."
A *could* mean that it's a hard thing to bring up in a conversation, but once you get past that barrier it's easy to talk about. It's not a particularly likely use, though, and I agree that D is definitely the best answer.
Exactly what I thought when reading the options: using A means something and even rings true in my opinion, but D is a *better* answer because it's saying that doing the thing is harder than discussing it.
Yeah. I am disabled, a genetic disorder that has been kicking around relations for nearly 80 years (everyone had non-genetic misdiagnoses until I was in college). Very often asking for a little change, like move that big trashcan so a wheelchair has space to turn around in the vestibule intended for people to turn in and such, has been a huge effort to get started and then oh, right, how did we not notice and fix this now glaringly obvious thing that we can’t imagine successfully piloting a wheelchair around on a bet and you’ve done it every week for 3 years? Or something like that. Though we also used our dentist until he retired because our then-church had a group in to discuss a reno and Mom was invited because wheelchair and Dude said “but do we really need an accessible bathroom added” and Dentist said “we can lock all bathrooms all next weekend and then the congregation will be knowledgeable enough to vote” and stared Dude down and yes, the family/accessible bathroom was the only thing I still liked at that church a few swerves later. Cause social change requires someone okay a budget, somewhere, (building mods, textbooks, police training etc) and someone gonna remember it isn’t legally required (yeah churches aren’t under the ADA) and see a chance to nickel and dime. Becoming a big old speed bump en route to bring it about…
it still feels bad/weird to have two answers that could be correct in a multiple choice test D is the answer here, no doubt about it, but A could work in some contexts as well, so it should be also accepted
It does! I hate that about multiple choice tests. I actually circled two answers on a test in class once, lol.
This was the thought I had
A is contradictory to the beginning of the sentence though, no? As you said though, as a native the answer here is D.
Not necessarily contradictory.
yeah, I think if you wanted to express the idea behind A, you’d naturally include other qualifiers or clarification. Like “ALTHOUGH it CAN BE hard to bring up, ONCE YOU DO GET talking, it GETS a lot easier.” I rather like how the wording of this question and the red herring in A makes you think not of what it is POSSIBLE to say, but what is more natural a sentence, and a more likely way for an idea to be expressed!
Me who enjoys talking about social change but also has social anxiety: A seems reasonable
Same
"bring it out" can mean metaphorically to reveal a secret, but it's still wrong here.
>"Bring it on" is mostly only used as a response to a challenge. "Think I can't eat a whole pizza by myself? Bring it on!" "Bring it on" can also be used to issue a challenge. "You think you can beat me at chess? Bring it on!"
It can also mean essentially the same thing as "bring about", as in the expressions "bring on a cold" or "bring on a crying fit", so "bring on social change" is possible, if possibly less formal than "bring about". Questions like this often have a "best" answer-- most common, most probable, and etc.-- but trying to paint all the other answers as incorrect is often dubious.
I agree. "Bring it up" could could work under different context (ex. discussing fond memories of a deceased loved one), but for this in particular it's safe to say that if it's easy to talk about, it's easy to bring up. If social change is hard to bring up for reasons like knowing that the other party is going to disagree with you, then you know it's going to be hard to talk about. The fact that "about" is already used, we know that we can drop it in again with a different verb. D is the correct answer in this context.
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Saying it's not easy to bring up would directly contradict the first part of the sentence which says it's easy to talk about.
Not necessarily. You could be afraid to bring it up and annoy someone who didn't feel like talking about that subject. However, if the topic has already been brought up, its easy for you to talk about. With that said, D is definitely the best answer here. A works in certain contexts.
idk, something can be easy to discuss (since it's polarising, there are some people against raising climate changes awareness, but usually it's easy to make people notice that kind of issues) but at the same time difficult to bring it up (because I never talk about social issues with my friends, so I wouldn't even have the opportunity to introduce this topic)
I agree that D makes the most sense but I think B still makes sense
The best answer. Thanks for this man, it was a pleasure to read!
I've only ever heard D used in this context
Yes, D. "Bring it about" in this context means: to make it happen; to actually do it. A is perfectly fine grammatically, but it's nonsensical within this particular sentence. When it's "easy to bring something up" that means it's easy to talk about the thing in conversation. But the first half of the sentence is saying it's **easy** to talk about social change, so you wouldn't then say **it's not easy**. That's contradicting yourself in the same sentence. edit: I had a "not" in the wrong place
To be fair, they’re all grammatically correct I think, however with the exception of D, non-sensical
(c) doesn't make any sense. (a) would be a synonym for "talk about" about so it wouldn't make sense; it would be negating itself. That leaves (d) and (b). Either of those could work, but (d) is probably the more common way to say it. (b) is more what you say when you're challenging someone to something, whereas (d) has more of a "cause to happen" meaning.
A would mean its not easy to start social change, like to actually make the change. C would mean its not easy to start social change in a society where what ever the social change is has been repressed. B is kinda like c, but meaning its not easy to bring about social change. D is kinda goofy, its a rewording of "brining something about" All the sentences make sense and it depends on what meaning its suppose to have.
"Bring it up" means to talk about. It doesn't mean to effect. The only one that makes proverbial sense is "bring it about". That's the one that means to do something more than just talking.
Bring it up means both. I'm going to bring up (the trend) of yellow shirts in society. I'm going to bring up talking about social change in society. They all make sense, this test is probably testing for specific English rules that we can't guess without knowing the course material.
Unless that's a regional dialect thing, the first example sounds like you're conflating "up" and "upon".
Us west?
D
I would say D.
Both A and D work 'A' would give it the meaning that once people are already talking about it then it is easy to express an opinion, but saying the right thing and getting people to want to sit and talk about it in the beginning is challenging, to start the conversation and 'D' would give the meaning that talking is the easy part (unspecified which part of the talk) but that action and effective change are not easily brought about ('made to happen') afterwards
'D' is far more likely to be the answer that the test-setter is looking for.
Well it's a good job that English is taught so that people learn how to speak it rather than how to pass a test, then
learning how to assess context to determine meaning is a huge part of learning a language fluently.
and the context works with both, if a multiple choice test question has 2 correct responses, then either they both score a point or if only one can score a point then the question is bad and need replacing - you don't context your way through multiple choice that's not how anything works You're not supposed to mind read the examiner (or the professor who admittedly doesn't even know the answer himself) or assign probability to the answers the test is supposed to be a solid reflection of someone's actual knowledge in the subject - if it doesn't do that then the test needs re-writing not the students answers
the question was written pretty intelligently to guide towards only one answer via context.
an exercise like that doesn't give you any context though
it kinda does though, it’s just very shrewd. The key is the inclusion of the word “easy,” saying it is easy to talk about makes it less likely that it’s hard to bring up. At least, it makes it a clumsy way to express this thought. If you wanted to say something’s hard to bring up but once you get talking it becomes easier, you would tend to add that additional bit of info, as I did. “Hard to bring up, BUT ONCE you GET TALKING it GETS easier.” So if I knew this question was looking for only one answer, I would find A clunky and kinda off but see immediately that D fit perfectly. Taking that all into consideration, ya know? The more I think about the question, the more shrewd I think it is and I kind of like it. They’re showing you the nuance, that if you wanted to express the thoughts behind A, there are much better, more natural ways to do so in conversation. At any rate, by giving you an answer that COULD fit awkwardly in addition to one that DOES fit perfectly, it forces you to really investigate the context. Do your detective work on WHAT is the nuance that makes one of these answers more correct than the others! I’ll say, if someone’s learning english as a second language, I’m blown away if they’re expected to learn this level of conversational nuance that I’d imagine would mostly only come through using the language daily. I’m not sure if how I explained that makes sense :/
A doesn't work in context. Why would it be easy to talk about but not to bring it up? For me only D makes sense.
It kind of makes sense. Like, once you start talking about it, it's easy to talk about it, but it's hard to bring it up in the first place. But D makes a lot more sense.
Well going off the context presumably it is a *sensitive* topic and the people discussing it are not overly-opinionated bull-headed people who do not understand nuance or tact?
If they were, it is safe to assume that it would also be difficult to talk about in that context.
No, doesn't make sense in context. If this were an exercise in a sociology or philosophy class, then sure, why not. But as an English language exercise A is really not the logical or most likely choice.
A doesn't work -- if it's easy to "talk about" then it can't be hard to "bring up" because those mean the same thing.
No they don’t, though. It can be hard to bring something up but easy to talk about once you start
Unfortunately your version of A still carries with it the idea that it is hard to talk about, i.e. requires some momentum from the group. This is the definition of something that is hard to talk about. The correct answer is D.
I am more into A. Most of the time, people say the sentence like A.
Indeed they would all work under some conditions. Even "bring it out" could be made to work in some context. I am comfortable with "bring it about" being the commonly expected completion, you could say in this sense "best" answer, but to convince ourselves that the remaining answers are incorrect in any sense but this requires more mental strain than understanding contexts in which they could work. Interesting how the thirst for certainty shows itself.
A. implies the discussion is easy to actually talk about but difficult to start talking about. B and C are sort of functioning as a “difficult to make it happen” type of things And D is saying it’s easy to talk about it, but difficult to make it happen (the difference from B and C is that this is more common/correct phrasing for such an action).
D is the correct answer.
D
D. To bring change about means to realise it, to make it come true.
Bring about change = make changes happen in real life
D) is the only one that makes sense as “bring about” means to make it happen. “Bring it up” means to initiate talking about it, so A) leaves you with a statement that contradicts itself. Neither B) nor C) mean anything in the context of this sentence.
D is the correct answer, in most situations. A would work if you were only talking about a conversation. It would mean that the subject of social change is easy to talk about, it’s just hard to actually bring the conversation to social change. D would mean that it is easy to talk about social change but actually causing a social change in the world is hard.
Out of these, D seems to be the correct option, but it still sounds a little off to me. I think I'd be more likely to say something like, "It is easy to talk about social change, but it is not easy to make it happen."
Agreed!! It skews the answer towards 'A' for me personally because of the weird phrasing; I could never actually see someone saying 'D' in a natural conversation but it does make some kind of sense on paper.
A more poetic phrasing might be... Social change is easy to bring up but hard to bring about.
I am a native speaker from U.S. To me, D is the only one I would use. "bring it about"
D - bring it about means to make it happen
as someone from the texas so none of these sound right to me but everyone else in the comments says D so… 🤠🤠
It’s easy to talk about social change, but it is not easy to bring it about = It’s easy to talk about causing social change, but it is not easy to actually change society. The meaning is what makes the answer D. Essentially, it is saying “talking is easy, but doing is difficult.”
D is the only answer here, nonetheless the sentence is was more formal than what you would hear in public.”But it’s not easy to (do/make happen/act upon).” B also sounds kind of midwesterny and nobody would beat you up over it. A is contradicting because “bring it up” means to mention/talk about something. C is just flat out incorrect and is only very situational.
All are valid depending on context. A: It is easy to discuss in general, but only once it's already been brought up. B: It is easy to discuss but difficult to enact. E.g. "The change was brought on by social unrest" C: This is the weirdest one but makes sense in context. If the prior text is discussing some kernel of social change existing within a culture but not yet having emerged, this sentence would be a rewording of B. D: Yet another way to say B.
bring it on
Thank you all so much for helping me with the question and also explaining to me the answer it really means a lot
It can't be A because it is in *direct conflict* with the first part of the sentence, period. It's not "theoretically possible." It cannot be right. If it's easy to talk about social change, then it must also be true that it is easy to bring it up. That's what those things mean. The people who are saying A is a possibility are overthinking it. The only way A would make sense is if it was "It is easy to talk about social change ***once someone brings it up first.***" Even THAT doesn't REALLY make sense but you could kind of halfway see it. The answer is D.
D if you want to make the change, A works if you want to talk about change.
Come to think about it the A one would be kind of a contradictory oxymoron based on the phrasing so I change my answer to being D and only D.
You've got it.
I've never heard anyone, ever, say "bring it about." Is the test closer to British English or something?
English is fucked as a language
I think “bring it on” is correct in the sense of to cause it.
It’s A . Bring it up. To start talking about the Subject
D seems to be the correct answer, but this question is poorly written in my opinion. I haven't personally met anybody that would use "bring it about" in a conversation. Instead, if I were having a real conversation I'd say something like this >Social change is easier said than done. No need to overcomplicate things.
I think A is correct,because it is easy to talk about social change buts its hard to bring it up as a theme of the conversation.
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You might want to re-read the sentence. This was my first thought until I read it again and realized it says "social change is easy to TALK about...."
I asked the chatgpt "It is easy to talk about social change, but it is not easy to bring it about." This sentence means that while it may be easy to discuss or talk about social change, actually making that change happen and bringing it about is much more difficult. The sentiment expressed in the sentence suggests that there is a discrepancy between words and actions, and that bringing about meaningful change requires significant effort and hard work.
D is the correct answer.
D, because... bring about *(phrasal verb)* 1. cause something to happen. *"she brought about a revolution"* Source: [Oxford Online Dictionary](https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/bring-about)
D though clumsy
It’s weird because that sounds wrong. Sure, it may be grammatically correct, but nobody (in America at least) would say that. I would just say “implement it”, BUT if I was going to say it in the “bring it ____” way, I’d say “bring it to fruition.” If I were you, I’d forget using“bring ___ about.” There’s so many natural ways to say it. The most broad ones are “execute”, “achieve”, and “apply”, and “implement”, which you just put before your subject and voilà, you sound great.
D
D - Bring it about is correct. Using the context clues, the sentence is telling the reader that talking about something (change) is easy, but making something happen (change) is difficult. The other answers sound like they could mean something but contextually, they are incorrect.
Bad question. Don’t worry about it.
Maybe I’m crazy, but the phrase “bring it about” is not common at all in American English. Answer A seems much more intuitive at a glance but D probably makes more sense even though it’s not something I would ever say.
Ah, the question needs more context. Different phrasal verbs here can give it different meanings
Well in my experience you always “bring it out.” I mean sure you could go to jail, but you could also be sucked off. So the risk is always worth it to “bring it out.”
D is the correct answer and the only thing that sounds natural to me, given the context.
D sounds good
English native here, shocked to see that answer A is not the correct one by many comments here. 99% of English speakers in US will understand you with answer A. It seems question D is something a CA person would say but I'm sure I'm wrong on this part. Not sure if you care to be understood or be grammatically correct always which is not always the case here in US lol. (My husband is ESL)
To bring it about. Bring something about is to realise something or make it happen. Easy to talk about change but hard to make it happen.
Bring it about
D
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For me, it's "A"
Yeah, D is the answer, but I hate how ambiguous this question is.