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More than fifty cups of Cofee

by heymayank08 » Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:53 am
Q)16. Balzac drank more than fifty cups of coffee a day and died of caffeine poisoning; furthermore, caffeine did not seem to bother Samuel Johnson, the great writer and lexicographer, who was reported to have drunk twenty-five cups of tea at one sitting.


furthermore, caffeine did not seem to bother

Correct Option:- however, caffeine did not seem to bother

You Selected:- however, caffeine did not seem to have bothered

furthermore, caffeine did not seem to have bothered

in addition, caffeine did not seem to bother


can anybody explain?
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by GmatKiss » Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:07 pm
heymayank08 wrote:Q)16. Balzac drank more than fifty cups of coffee a day and died of caffeine poisoning; furthermore, caffeine did not seem to bother Samuel Johnson, the great writer and lexicographer, who was reported to have drunk twenty-five cups of tea at one sitting.


furthermore, caffeine did not seem to bother

Correct Option:- however, caffeine did not seem to bother

You Selected:- however, caffeine did not seem to have bothered

furthermore, caffeine did not seem to have bothered

in addition, caffeine did not seem to bother


can anybody explain?
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by Jim@StratusPrep » Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:18 pm
Look at the parallelism between Balzac drank.... and ... did not bother. Both in the past tense as you are talking about a moment in time. It gets confusing with the 'have drunk' at the end of the sentence, but this modifier that is talking about events over a period of time - thus you would use the past perfect as was done.
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