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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
(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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Hey All,
Just wanted to throw in one brief bit of info on a question that no one answered quite right. Unlike the OG, I don't like to leave any issue up to "awkward construction" if I can help it.
D. tends not to bother recovering a perishable treat
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E. tends not bothering to recover a perishable treat it
PROBLEM: the reason why "tends not bothering to" is incorrect is that many verbs require the use of the infinitive directly after them. For example, "I like to run" "I wouldn't care to go there" etc. This is one of those verbs (i.e. "I tend to eat four times a day" or "I tend not to eat four times a day"). We need the "to bother" to come right after tend.
Hope that helps!
-t
Just wanted to throw in one brief bit of info on a question that no one answered quite right. Unlike the OG, I don't like to leave any issue up to "awkward construction" if I can help it.
D. tends not to bother recovering a perishable treat
ANSWER
E. tends not bothering to recover a perishable treat it
PROBLEM: the reason why "tends not bothering to" is incorrect is that many verbs require the use of the infinitive directly after them. For example, "I like to run" "I wouldn't care to go there" etc. This is one of those verbs (i.e. "I tend to eat four times a day" or "I tend not to eat four times a day"). We need the "to bother" to come right after tend.
Hope that helps!
-t
Updated on: 31 Dec 2009, 05:39
Originally posted by mikeCoolBoy on 30 Dec 2009, 15:46.
Last edited by mikeCoolBoy on 31 Dec 2009, 05:39, edited 1 time in total.
Last edited by mikeCoolBoy on 31 Dec 2009, 05:39, edited 1 time in total.
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Is this really a GMATPrep SC, could you please post the screen shot?
I've checked the definition of comma slice and run-on and for a sentence to be a run-on it has to connect two INDEPENDENT clauses. An independent clause contains a subject and a verb and has to express a thought. In other words, it can stand alone as a sentence. So according to that definition Researchers have discovered would not be an independent clause and the sentence would not be a run-on.
On the other hand, I believe GMAT always uses dependent markers to join an independent clause and a dependent one, so please post the screen shot of this problem from GMATPrep so that we can check whether this construction is acceptable on the GMAT.
Regarding your questions about how to pick between D and E. Tend is used with to + infinitive, so if you want to negate the infinitive you gotta use not to + infinitive
I believe that E suffers split infinitive problem. You're not allowed to separate "to" from the infinitive. For instance you cannot insert adverbs between the verb and "to". In this case you're putting bothering between. I believe it is not idiomatic.
Did you copy option E right? because "it" just does not make any sense. Perhaps it was if.
I've checked the definition of comma slice and run-on and for a sentence to be a run-on it has to connect two INDEPENDENT clauses. An independent clause contains a subject and a verb and has to express a thought. In other words, it can stand alone as a sentence. So according to that definition Researchers have discovered would not be an independent clause and the sentence would not be a run-on.
On the other hand, I believe GMAT always uses dependent markers to join an independent clause and a dependent one, so please post the screen shot of this problem from GMATPrep so that we can check whether this construction is acceptable on the GMAT.
Regarding your questions about how to pick between D and E. Tend is used with to + infinitive, so if you want to negate the infinitive you gotta use not to + infinitive
I believe that E suffers split infinitive problem. You're not allowed to separate "to" from the infinitive. For instance you cannot insert adverbs between the verb and "to". In this case you're putting bothering between. I believe it is not idiomatic.
Did you copy option E right? because "it" just does not make any sense. Perhaps it was if.
