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There are several schools that allow students to either eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside on the playground. (A) allow students to either eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside (B) allow students to eat either their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside (C) allow students to eat their lunch in either the school cafeteria or outside (D) either allow students to eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside (E) allow students to eat their lunch either in the school cafeteria or outside
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Re: cafeteria v. playground [#permalink]
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Sorry, I have forgotten to underline the part of the stem which is questioned. Pls. get it as is in "A". Thanks!
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This is a test of llism in the use of co-relative conjunction either or. Whatever part of speech is expressed after ‘ either’ should be maintained after ‘ or’. ( either x or Y). One can see that only C does that.
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Agree with daagh. this is an 'either or' sentence. I would go with C
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Nope, if C the sentnce will sound awful - allow students to eat their lunch in outside the playground
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Re: cafeteria v. playground [#permalink]
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feruz77 wrote: There are several schools that allow students to either eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside on the playground.
(A) allow students to either eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(B) allow students to eat either their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(C) allow students to eat their lunch in either the school cafeteria or outside
(D) either allow students to eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(E) allow students to eat their lunch either in the school cafeteria or outside (...) to eat...either inside or outside => answer E
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Good question here, and great discussion. This one does come down to parallel structure, but even at that I think there's some definite strategy here if you look at where the underlined portion fits back in to the rest of the sentence. The last word of the underlined portion in each answer choice is "outside", meaning that we're stuck with the word "on" as the first non-underlined, fixed portion of the sentence. Because we're stuck with that prepositional connector, we need to make sure that, in this parallel construction, we have a connector to match for the first term. Therefore, we need to have: Either in...or on Only E, the correct answer, provides us with that construction. Students can eat their lunch: Either in (the cafeteria) or on (the playground)
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feruz77 wrote: if you like my question, you can give kudos. thanks a lot Yeah its good explanation.....
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'either X or Y' this is the correct construction. X and Y should be parallel.
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Re: There are several schools that allow students to either eat [#permalink]
18 Dec 2011, 05:13
Easy one of either ....or... llism.
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Straight E. C does not maintain proper parallelism.
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Re: There are several schools that allow students to either eat [#permalink]
31 May 2012, 20:19
I chose E as well. Saying "in either" aloud sounds awkward and throws me off. "Either in" sounds more natural.
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VeritasPrepBrian wrote: Good question here, and great discussion. This one does come down to parallel structure, but even at that I think there's some definite strategy here if you look at where the underlined portion fits back in to the rest of the sentence.
The last word of the underlined portion in each answer choice is "outside", meaning that we're stuck with the word "on" as the first non-underlined, fixed portion of the sentence. Because we're stuck with that prepositional connector, we need to make sure that, in this parallel construction, we have a connector to match for the first term.
Therefore, we need to have:
Either in...or on
Only E, the correct answer, provides us with that construction. Students can eat their lunch:
Either in (the cafeteria) or on (the playground) Thanks for such a nice explanation..
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feruz77 wrote: There are several schools that allow students to either eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside on the playground.
(A) allow students to either eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(B) allow students to eat either their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(C) allow students to eat their lunch in either the school cafeteria or outside
(D) either allow students to eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(E) allow students to eat their lunch either in the school cafeteria or outside One method to adopt here is to eliminate either-or pair from the sentence. allow students to eat their lunch in the school. allow students to eat their lunch outside on the playground. Both of these make proper sentence, hence E is the correct answer. In case of C, following the same approach .. allow students to eat their lunch in the school cafeteria. allow students to eat their lunch in outside on the playground. Do they sound correct..NO! Hence, C is wrong choice here.
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