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It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from 06 Jul 2022, 21:45
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I solved this via parallelism but I think it was luck more than skill. Could any experts see if my reasoning below makes sense:

It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from seawater, but at present this process is prohibitively expensive.

In italics: The timing came first in the sentence (at present)
In answer choices, only A and B stated the "timing" (someday) at the start of the sentence. Further reading B, "to try and" is wrong. Hence A.

Any experts able to comment if the above method was right or was it purely luck? AjiteshArun DmitryFarber GMATNinja
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Hi aa1411,

Here are my thoughts on those points:
1. We can't really say that this question tests parallelism. Option A is parallel, but so are the other options.

2. I know that some test prep resources consider try and to be impossible, but I don't recommend looking at try and as an absolute error. If we see a try to vs. try and split, we should consider try to better than try and.

Removing option B involves taking a couple of preference calls: (a) try to vs. try and, and (b) someday, it may be vs. it may someday be. I recommend removing B on the basis of try and. Options C, D, and E are wordy, unidiomatic, awkward, or some combination of the three.
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It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from 30 Aug 2022, 00:48
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can we reject C] on the basis that there is no doer for the 'trying to recover'
who is trying to recover?? not mentioned. therefore incorrect usage of -ing verbal ??

or are we going to treat is as gerund and say 'Trying to recover' is a noun and grammatically correct ?
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It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from 30 Aug 2022, 04:51
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can we reject C] on the basis that there is no doer for the 'trying to recover'
who is trying to recover?? not mentioned. therefore incorrect usage of -ing verbal ??

or are we going to treat is as gerund and say 'Trying to recover' is a noun and grammatically correct ?
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Hello himanshu0123,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, yes; in Option C, "Trying to recover" is a gerund phrase that refers to the action of "Trying" in the abstract.

We hope this helps.
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It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from 08 Sep 2023, 09:33
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