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by heymayank08 » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:33 am
The Western world's love affair with chocolate is well-documented: few people have been known to have tasted it for the first time without requesting more.
(A) few people have been known to have tasted it
(B) few having been known to taste it
(C) it has been tasted by few people
(D) few people have been known to taste it
(E) few people having tasted it

pls explain here whats the problem with option A..
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by Jim@StratusPrep » Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:26 am
The correct answer is D. "Have been known" is in the present perfect tense and when you have back to back verbs, the second verb is in the infinitive form. Thus to taste is correct and to have tasted is not.
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by GmatKiss » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:23 am
Was between A and D, thanks Jim!!
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