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A leading tourism agency has reported that last year tourists preferred to travel to Europe rather than experiencing an African safari.


A. to travel to Europe rather than experiencing an African safari

B. travelling to Europe rather than to experience an African safari

C. to travel to Europe rather than the African safari experience

D. European travel rather than the experience of what is known as an African safari

E. travelling to Europe rather than experiencing an African safari


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A leading tourism agency has reported that last year tourists preferred to travel to Europe rather than experiencing an African safari.

A. to travel to Europe rather than experiencing an African safari

B. travelling to Europe rather than to experience an African safari

C. to travel to Europe rather than the African safari experience

D. European travel rather than the experience of what is known as an African safari

E. travelling to Europe rather than experiencing an African safari

parallelism between travel and experience which is better used in E. Ans is E
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Only choice E follows grammatical parallelism.

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A leading tourism agency has reported that last year tourists preferred to travel to Europe rather than experiencing an African safari.


A. to travel to Europe rather than experiencing an African safari

B. travelling to Europe rather than to experience an African safari

C. to travel to Europe rather than the African safari experience

D. European travel rather than the experience of what is known as an African safari

E. travelling to Europe rather than experiencing an African safari


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A leading tourism agency has reported that last year tourists preferred to travel to Europe rather than experiencing an African safari.


A. to travel to Europe rather than experiencing an African safari

This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The construction A rather than B requires that A and B belong to the same part of speech. If A and B are unconjugated verbs, they should be of the same type. To travel is a To verb whereas experiencing is a Verb+ing.

What helps us identify this question as a Parallelism question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:

    A rather than B



B. travelling to Europe rather than to experience an African safari

This answer choice repeats the original mistake and is grammatically incorrect. The construction A rather than B requires that A and B belong to the same part of speech. If A and B are unconjugated verbs, they should be of the same type. Travelling is a Verb+ing whereas to experience is a To Verb.

What helps us identify this question as a Parallelism question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:

    A rather than B



C. to travel to Europe rather than the African safari experience

This answer choice is grammatically incorrect as it repeats the original mistake. The construction A rather than B requires that A and B belong to the same part of speech. In this answer choice, A is an unconjugated verb (to travel) whereas B is a noun (African safari experience).

What helps us identify this question as a Parallelism question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:

    A rather than B



D. European travel rather than the experience of what is known as an African safari

Although this answer choice corrects the original Parallelism mistake, it is stylistically flawed. The phrase of what is known as is redundant since it creates an unnecessarily long sentence.

Look for an answer choice that is both grammatically correct and concise.


E. travelling to Europe rather than experiencing an African safari

This answer choice correctly uses the construction A rather than B. A and B parallel each other as they are both unconjugated verbs of the same type (Verb+ing).
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