[Grammar] Ability / Revolution

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Pedro's ability to hear his mother calling was blamed on a slight hearing ability which was eventually solved using a revolutionary new technique from a sophisticated research laboratory.

Is that correct?
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Pedro's ability to hear his mother calling was blamed on a slight hearing ability which was eventually solved using a revolutionary new technique from a sophisticated research laboratory.

Is that correct?
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No, "disability" would make sense.
 

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Pedro's ability to hear his mother calling was blamed on a slight hearing ability which was eventually solved using a revolutionary new technique from a sophisticated research laboratory.

Is that correct?
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"Disability" works for the second "ability", but the first must also be changed. "Perdro's ability to hear" is not the problem, it is his "inability to hear".
 

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The choices I have in the exercice are: ability, ability and revolution.

I don't understand the exercise, but those choices are wrong.
 

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inability, disability, revolutionary
 

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Pedro's ability to hear his mother calling was blamed on a slight hearing ability which was eventually solved using a revolutionary new technique from a sophisticated research laboratory.

Hello,

I'd like to ask to our teachers if "which" here is used correctly? Shouldn't it be "that"? Even if "which" is correct, which I don't think so, it should be preceded by a comma, shouldn't it?
 

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Hello,

I'd like to ask to our teachers if "which" here is used correctly? Shouldn't it be "that"? Even if "which" is correct, which I don't think so, it should be preceded by a comma, shouldn't it?

"Which" is fine.

I had a hearing impairment which was eventually solved with the use of a hearing aid.
 
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