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According to an esteemed psychologist, the only way to maintain a positive frame of mind is to discard all negative thoughts and their sources; not to think about them, worry about them, analyze them, but to simply discard them.

A. not to think about them, worry about them, analyze them, but to simply discard them

B. not to think about them, to worry about them, to analyze them, but simply discarding them

C. not thinking about them, worrying about them, analyzing them, but simply discarding them

D. not thinking about them, worrying about them, analyzing them, but to simply discard them

E. not thinking about them, worrying about them, analyzing them, but simply to discard them



 


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I like A the most because all the verb tenses are in agreement. not to ... but to matches in parallel construction so it's mostly likely A.

However, it is also true that placing adverbs between to and its infinitive verb is not preferred. This is called splitting infinitives and isn't the preferred placement. The stimulus might not be testing this knowledge point in this particular question though
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I could easily eliminate BDE because of the parallelism issues in not...but using once outside twice inside rule

But I'm confused between A and C

No solid difference between the 2 but A seemed better because it mirrors the non-underlined portion of the sentence
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IMO A, correct me if I am wrong:

According to an esteemed psychologist, the only way to maintain a positive frame of mind is to discard all negative thoughts and their sources; not to think about them, worry about them, analyze them, but to simply discard them.

A. not to think about them, worry about them, analyze them, but to simply discard them----- correct, parallel construction & after semicolon we need an independent clause.

B. not to think about them, to worry about them, to analyze them, but simply discarding them-------incorrect, no parallel construction

C. not thinking about them, worrying about them, analyzing them, but simply discarding them-------incorrect, after semicolon we need an independent clause.

D. not thinking about them, worrying about them, analyzing them, but to simply discard them-------incorrect, after semicolon we need an independent clause.

E. not thinking about them, worrying about them, analyzing them, but simply to discard them-------incorrect, after semicolon we need an independent clause.
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For C to be correct, I believe semicolon should not be present there because we need an independent clause.
A has independent clause but no parallelism.
Pls correct me if I am worng.
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According to an esteemed psychologist, the only way to maintain a positive frame of mind is to discard all negative thoughts and their sources; not to think about them, worry about them, analyze them, but to simply discard them.

A. not to think about them, worry about them, analyze them, but to simply discard them

B. not to think about them, to worry about them, to analyze them, but simply discarding them

C. not thinking about them, worrying about them, analyzing them, but simply discarding them

D. not thinking about them, worrying about them, analyzing them, but to simply discard them

E. not thinking about them, worrying about them, analyzing them, but simply to discard them


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