<p>American's are learning that their concept of a research worker -toiling alone in a laboratory and who discovers miraculous cures- has been highly idealized and glamorized.</p>
<p>B) -toiling alone in a laboratory and discovers miraculous cures-</p>
<p>Or</p>
<p>C) -toiling alone in a laboratory to discover miraculous cures-</p>
<p>From a grammatical standpoint (not logical one) why is choice B wrong?</p>
<p>"to discover" is an infinitive, the "s" is inappropriate.</p>
<p>^ specify is right</p>
<p>Actually I'm wrong, I confused c with b, there was no to in b, sorry.</p>
<p>let me edit this real fast</p>
<p>edit:</p>
<p>Plug it into the sentence.</p>
<p>B) -toiling alone in a laboratory and discovers miraculous cures-</p>
<p>a research worker toiling alone in a laboratory and discovers miraculous cures</p>
<p>I'd say parallelism [lack of].</p>
<p>edit 2: for example, it should be "a research worker -toiling alone in a laboratory and discovering miraculous cures- " for it to be correct.</p>
<p>ye.. i guess it parrallelism too..</p>