#balasubramani92 E Is answer........

subjective

thoughtful

Thoughtful.

Explanation

Those who disagreed didn't fault Carmen for her controversial thoughts. Political, subjective and commonplace are all out of question as they do not make complete sense.
So it can be between Complicated and thoughtful. My money is on thoughtful. In any debate the contestants are least likely to fault a peer if their arguments are thought provoking regardless of their own standings.

Even those who disagreed with Carmen's views rarely faulted her for expressing them, for the positions she took were as (i) ________ as they were controversial.

Blank (i)
complicated
political
subjective
commonplace
thoughtful

Kudos for the right answer and explanation

Commonplace seems a better fit for me here because it implies an action that could be expressed better than any of the other options.

The answer is thoughtful. This is because the sentence says Even those who disagreed with Carmen's views rarely faulted her for expressing them. So even though her views were controversial the only case where she would not be faulted is if they were thoughtful as well.

why cant the answer be subjective?

hey @caracass, can you explain ?

It is should be commonplace as thoughtful is subjective, so for one person it can be thoughtful for another it might not be.
however common view can be controversial but Carmen's views rarely faulted her for expressing them, because it can be commonly available some agree and some don't but it is controversial.

1) For the positions she took were as__thoughtful___as (that)they were controversial.

2) that they were controversial as a noun clause can be understood as "they were against this matter"

Although others disagree with her point of view, they cannot refute it. Why?

Because her position is very thoughtful. How thoughtful?

To the same degree as (they were controversial).

In other words, her point of view covers all the points they can find fault with.

is this what you meant or you need further insights ? if yes please specifically tell me what you want I explain

yes this is what i needed thank you

I thought the answer to be subjective.
1st) If her views are thoughtful and others cannot find a fault in them how can they still disagree?
2nd) Why subjective -> Because others can think that her views are incorrect but because they are subjective they won't fault her, rather they just disagree with the view saying that it is subjective but they also think it can be true for her case and so they don't fault her.

Carcass ?

Also Carcass what should I do if after think so much and justifying my logic, still my answer turns out to be wrong in some cases? This is happening because of a difference in logic. How to solve this?

others also please give your views

trialid1

There is not the best strategy to tackle TC or SE or RC. We think so but over the years , I came to believe that probably there is not A strategy.

We have multiple strategies and our way of thinking, and by fusing both, we have our way of solving a question.

I share my way to solve a TC

1) I read the sentence slowly but not too slowly to get stuck in a single word or phrasal verb. I try to get the big picture and understand the entire sentence. Literally, what do we have here? The sentence is talking about WHAT? Mars, cooking, sport, politics, science.

2) See if the sentence, along the way as such during the first point just mentioned, has a shift, it is a single way sentence, it has some colon, semi-colon, comma, incidental phrase or else. Notice how to know and to have a good grasp of grammar is ESSENTIAL. This is an English Test.

3) USUALLy I do not use the pre-thinking strategy, thinking what kind of word could fill the blank BEFORE taking a look at the answer choices. FOR ME it is a waste of time. For others it is useful. FOR ME do not

NOW

Even those who disagreed with Carmen’s views

OK. We already have a lot of material here. Let me give you an example

Even those who think that carcass is an idiot we must admit that something this guy made for the common good.

That "Even those who disagreed with Carmen’s views" is telling us that something positive is coming, it is on the way. Or at least something that have a balance of fair opinion


rarely faulted her for expressing them,

We do know that RARELY (adverb) someone point his/her finger to her views Again, after all even though we do not like her way of thinking we CANNOT say that she is shameful for something.

for the positions she took

another way for not saying to blame her

were as _____ as they were controversial.

Here we needed the word to fill in the blank

Neither the views nor the positions were something

NOW: We said that we need a sort of equilibrium or balance. Moreover, notice as ____ as is another hint for this balance

Example: you will have great results as long as you study hard

Therefore those XYZ were controversial AND AT THE SAME TIME ANOTHER THIG TO CREATE BALANCE

complicated \(\neq\) controversial

political \(\neq\) controversial

subjective \(\neq\) controversial

commonplace \(\neq\) controversial

thoughtful \(=\) controversial

YES only E create a balance

She and her positions were controversial. we could agree more or less on that. However, AT THE SAME TIME, we should also agree that the same positions she had were controversial but also with a lot of inner sense. They have a profound meaning and yet thoughtful even though controversial.



I hope this helps

Carcass thanks for the explanation. I missed out on the "balance" idea and that's why got this wrong.