|Question 18Verbal

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To coders like Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant, the computer programming languages Groovy and S-Lang have a clear difference: the former is an object-oriented language while the latter is not. Because both languages require highly technical knowledge to understand, though, laypeople ________ to distinguish between them.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
struggle
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struggled
B
were struggling
C
had struggled
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