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by GmatKiss » Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:43 am
It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from seawater, but at present this process is prohibitively expensive.

(A) It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from seawater
(B) Someday, it may be worthwhile to try and recover uranium from seawater
(C) Trying to recover uranium out of seawater may someday be worthwhile
(D) To try for the recovery of uranium out of seawater may someday be worthwhile
(E) Recovering uranium from seawater may be worthwhile to try to do someday

WHY IS B WRONG?
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by gmatblood » Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:43 am
IMO : B
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by avik.ch » Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:20 am
GmatKiss wrote:It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from seawater, but at present this process is prohibitively expensive.

(A) It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from seawater
(B) Someday, it may be worthwhile to try and recover uranium from seawater
(C) Trying to recover uranium out of seawater may someday be worthwhile
(D) To try for the recovery of uranium out of seawater may someday be worthwhile
(E) Recovering uranium from seawater may be worthwhile to try to do someday

WHY IS B WRONG?
"to try and recover" is not the correct idiom,
The correct idiom is :try to + verb

I hope this helps.
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by ranjeet75 » Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:43 am
why C is wrong? Whether "trying to recover" sort of construction is used for future events.

I am confused in A & C. Though A seems right but I could not get why C is wrong.
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by aspirant2011 » Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:24 am
Yup avik is right in his explanation.......
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by sam2304 » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:00 am
IMO A.

The structure and meaning seems very clear in A with a possibility, period, an effort to something followed by a contrast, period, and why the effort is not preferred.
Getting defeated is just a temporary notion, giving it up is what makes it permanent.
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