cipher wrote:
skim wrote:
In virtually all types of tissue in every animal species dioxin induces the production of enzymes that are the organisms trying to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical that is irritating it.
(A)trying to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical that is irritating it.
(B)trying that it metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritant
(C)attempt to try to metabolize, or render harmless, such a chemical irritant
(D)attempt to try and metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritating it
(E)attempt to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritant
(A)trying to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical that is irritating it.
(B)trying that it metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritant
(C)attempt to try to metabolize, or render harmless, such a chemical irritant
(D)attempt to try and metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritating it
(E)attempt to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritant
A and B are awkward and wordy. In A and D attempt to Try is redundant and unidiomatic. Hence E is correct one.
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Can some One guide me what is the Idiom here?