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by ska7945 » Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:48 am
1．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

answer A
what is wrong with B? Is A just a better sentence?
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by Suyog » Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:08 am
IMO A.

I dont know if I can explain this, but I'll try...

‘To try and recover’ is not correct ..you cannot try and do something
B changes the meaning of the sentence. We have to try to recover; we donot have to recover....

I had also selected B initially :(
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by MBAboy » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:51 am
ska7945 wrote:1?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

answer A
what is wrong with B? Is A just a better sentence?
I can understand why B is not the right choice.
How did you eliminate C and E?
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Re: Someday, it may be..

by MBAboy » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:51 am
ska7945 wrote:1?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

answer A
what is wrong with B? Is A just a better sentence?
I can understand why B is not the right choice.
How did you eliminate C and E?
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by NSNguyen » Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:44 am
IMO: E
rest of all acquire word order mistake"someday"
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by agganitk » Mon Jul 05, 2010 1:48 am
Can someone please explain why C and D are wrong? It is not crystal clear to me. Second question, Is "THIS" a pronoun ? If the answer is yes, then what (noun, clause ..etc.) can be the antecedent for "THIS" ?
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by loveusonu » Mon Jul 05, 2010 2:35 am
agganitk wrote:Can someone please explain why C and D are wrong? It is not crystal clear to me. Second question, Is "THIS" a pronoun ? If the answer is yes, then what (noun, clause ..etc.) can be the antecedent for "THIS" ?
IDIOM is "try to" so both B and D are INCORRECT

Both C and E are incorrect because of lack of parallelism. The sentence has a parallel structure.

"It may some day....,but at present"

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