A scrub jay can remember when it cached a particular piece of food in a particular place, researchers have discovered, and tend not to bother to recover a perishable treat if stored long enough to have rotted. (A) tend not to bother to recover a perishable treat if (B) they tend not to bother recovering a perishable treat (C) tending not to bother to recover a perishable treat it (D) tends not to bother recovering a perishable treat (E) tends not bothering to recover a perishable treat it

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Hi Experts,

Please can you help me with my below query.

In Option E, the last bit of the option "it stored long enough to have rotted" is in past tense while the IC after and "tends not to bother recovering a perishable treat" is in present tense. Will option E be wrong because of the reason that there is a mismatch of verb tenses as the scrub jay will tend not to bother to recover while the food is stored?

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Good catch, KittyDoodles.

The two tenses don't quite together because "it stored" communicates that the storage ended in the past, while "tends not bothering to recover" is about the present.

What would make sense is to use the present perfect "has stored," as in, "tends not bothering to recover a perishable treat it has stored."

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