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by real2008 » Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:02 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


please explain...
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by real2008 » Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:04 pm
OOPS! No answer!
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Re: uranium from seawater

by madhur_ahuja » Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:08 pm
IMO A

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 ... correct parallel contrast

(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 .. Distorted mearning
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by Naruto » Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:01 pm
IMO B, Whats wrong with 'to try and recover' infact it clarifies that 'it may be worthwhile' meaning may is for trying and not for someday.

OA please?
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by madhur_ahuja » Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:10 pm
Naruto wrote:IMO B, Whats wrong with 'to try and recover' infact it clarifies that 'it may be worthwhile' meaning may is for trying and not for someday.

OA please?
I think to try and recover is not correct idiomatically.

To try and(conjunction) ... .... try what ? .. Seems incomplete.

To try to recover ... clearly specifies the intended meaning ...
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by tanviet » Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:47 pm
the idiom is "to try to do" not try for doing or try and do

but why C and E are wrong?
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by madhur_ahuja » Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:50 pm
duongthang wrote:the idiom is "to try to do" not try for doing or try and do

but why C and E are wrong?
Trying to recover uranium out of seawater may someday be worthwhile

You recover from something, not out of something

Recovering uranium from seawater may be worthwhile to try to do someday

to try to do is wrong and wordy.

It should have been:
Recovering uranium from seawater may be worthwhile to try someday
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by shilpi84 » Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:53 am
IMO : A
TO TRY TO DO is the correct idiom.
C is wrong because in the portion 'but at present this process is prohibitively expensive' this process is referring to 'Trying to recover uranium out of seawater' whereas the process is simply 'to recover uranium from seawater'
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by rah_pandey » Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:15 am
C, D and E are all passive
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by real2008 » Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:09 pm
oa is A
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by tanviet » Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:43 am
why C and E is wrong?
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by viju9162 » Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:15 am
Answer will be A.

C sounds passive and E sounds ackward ( to try to do someday)
"Native of" is used for a individual while "Native to" is used for a large group
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by tanviet » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:54 am
have you ever heard that we should avoid to use"to do" and " doing" as subject

I hear this and this is why C and E is wrong

any idea, pls, speak up
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