mchakrain Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 1. It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from seawater, but at present this process is prohibitively expensive. (A) It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from seawater (B) Someday, it may be worthwhile to try and recover uranium from seawater © Trying to recover uranium out of seawater may someday be worthwhile (D) To try for the recovery of uranium out of seawater may someday be worthwhile (E) Recovering uranium from seawater may be worthwhile to try to do someday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tictaktoe Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 A for me.. A says try to recover B says try and recover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmaholic Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Consult this : http://www.www.urch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14068 You'll also find this here : http://www.www.urch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31301 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilmorethan740 Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 What's the problem with C ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawanjsvn Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 "Someday........, but at present...." Parallelism is maintained only in A & B. But A is better because of the usage of "try to recover" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gschmilinsky Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 I'm not sure why C is incorrect either. It seems that the parallelism is mantained. The only thing I can think of is that C starts with 'Trying' and sentences that start with --ing words are adjectival phrases that need a noun after the comma, but honestly the sentence sounds right to me, because of: 'may someday be worthwhile'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnowledgeSeeker Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 I'm not sure why C is incorrect either. It seems that the parallelism is mantained. The only thing I can think of is that C starts with 'Trying' and sentences that start with --ing words are adjectival phrases that need a noun after the comma, but honestly the sentence sounds right to me, because of: 'may someday be worthwhile'. Isn't 'recover from' the correct idiomatic usage. To me 'recover out of' (used in C) does not sound right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gschmilinsky Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 Isn't 'recover from' the correct idiomatic usage. To me 'recover out of' (used in C) does not sound right. That very well could be. It makes more sense to me than parrallelism. It certainly is not as succinct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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