新prep 1-200

besttys

A scrub jay can remember when it cached a particular piece of food in a particular place, researchers have discovered, and tend not to bother to recover a perishable treat if stored long enough to have rotted.

 

A. tend not to bother to recover a perishable treat if

 

 

B. they tend not to bother recovering a perishable treat

 

 

C. tending not to bother to recover a perishable treat it

 

 

D. tends not to bother recovering a perishable treat

 

 

E. tends not bothering to recover a perishable treat it

这道题讨论帖上还没有出现，我选了A，望NN指点，句子结构是怎样的？谢~~

funnytigers

researchers have discovered,是插入语，在分析句子结构时可以不用管它。所以句子的主语实际只有一个就是“A scrub jay”，and后面的并列句的动词当然也就要用第三人称单数了。

sweatflys

A scrub jay

 

can remember when it cached a particular piece of food in a particular place, researchers have discovered, and tend not to bother to recover a perishable treat if stored long enough to have rotted.

 

a错在主谓不一致。

yayajiaojiao

treat if 貌似没这么个用法的说。答案是D