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One of the best in business, Tranklin Fempleton fund managers are extremely adept at picking trends in healthcare industry and tend not to bother to recover a losing stock if invested long enough to have given whopping returns earlier.

A. tend not to bother to recover a losing stock if

B. they tend not to bother recovering a losing stock

C. tending not to bother recovering a losing stock if

D. tends not to bother recovering a losing stock

E. tends not bothering to recover a losing stock if
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One of the best in business, Tranklin Fempleton fund managers are extremely adept at picking trends in healthcare industry and tend not to bother to recover a losing stock if invested long enough to have given whopping returns earlier.

A. tend not to bother to recover a losing stock if - Correct

B. they tend not to bother recovering a losing stock - Parallelism error

C. tending not to bother recovering a losing stock if - Same as B

D. tends not to bother recovering a losing stock - Subject verb agreement error. 'Fund managers' is plural. So we need a plural verb after the parallelism marker 'and'.

E. tends not bothering to recover a losing stock if - Same as D

Answer: A
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What parallelism error you talking for option B?

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'they' is not required in choice B. We say 'Sun rises in the east and sets in the west' and not 'Sun rises in the east and it sets in the west'.

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What parallelism error you talking for option B?

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What parallelism error you talking for option B?

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The Tranklin Templeton managers do 2 things

1. are extremely adept.......
2. tend not to bother

The part in red are verbs that are parallel. There is no need to repeat the subject "they" again. Hence, there is a parallelism error :-)

Does this make sense?
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Thanks for the explanation.
Yet I think this makes sense.

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One of the best in business, Tranklin Fempleton fund managers are extremely adept at picking trends in healthcare industry and tend not to bother to recover a losing stock if invested long enough to have given whopping returns earlier.

A. tend not to bother to recover a losing stock if

B. they tend not to bother recovering a losing stock

C. tending not to bother recovering a losing stock if

D. tends not to bother recovering a losing stock

E. tends not bothering to recover a losing stock if
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As an aside:

This is a poorly constructed sentence.

The non- underlined part is grammatically incorrect. There is disagreement between singular and plural forms:

"One of the best in business" (singular), followed by "fund managers" (plural).

GMAT will not present such poor constructions. Suggestion: avoid practicing on bad questions if you wish not to damage your knowledge.

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