12 Days of Christmas GMAT Competition - Day 2: It may someday be worth

Experts' Global Official Explanation:

Idioms +Meaning + Verb Form + Redundancy/Awkwardness

Understanding the intended meaning is key to solving this question; the intended meaning of this sentence is that although it may be worthwhile to try to clone animal tissue for consumption, someday, at present this process in prohibitively expensive.

• “to try to” is a correct, idiomatic usage.

A. Correct. This answer choice correctly uses the idiomatic construction “to try to”. Further, Option A uses the phrase “to try to clone animal tissue…”, conveying the intended meaning- that the process of cloning animal tissue for consumption is prohibitively expensive at present. Additionally, Option A is free of any awkwardness or redundancy.

B. Trap. This answer choice incorrectly uses the unidiomatic construction “to try and” rather than the idiomatic construction “to try to”; please remember, “to try to” is a correct, idiomatic usage.

C. This answer choice alters the meaning of the sentence through the phrase “Trying to clone…”; the construction of this phrase incorrectly implies that the process of trying to clone animal tissue for consumption is prohibitively expensive at present; the intended meaning is that the process of cloning animal tissue for consumption is prohibitively expensive at present.

D. This answer choice incorrectly uses the unidiomatic construction “to try for” rather than the idiomatic construction “to try to”; please remember, “to try to” is a correct, idiomatic usage.

E. This answer choice uses the redundant phrase “to try to do”, rendering it needlessly wordy and awkward.

A is the best answer choice.



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