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22 Apr 2015, 08:46
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Hi,
Is this sentence correct:
He has either been swimming or playing tennis
How about this one:
He has been either swimming or playing tennis.
If both are correct, then which one is preferred according to GMAT?
Is this sentence correct:
He has either been swimming or playing tennis
How about this one:
He has been either swimming or playing tennis.
If both are correct, then which one is preferred according to GMAT?
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24 Apr 2015, 06:38
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apolo
Your tenses above are a bit more complex than what you would see on the GMAT.
With the GMAT, if the auxiliary verb is on the outside of the parallel structure the participles are alone inside the parallel structure. If it's inside the parallel structure it needs to be repeated.
He HAD either swum or played tennis.
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He either HAD swum or HAD played tennis.
Both are perfectly fine from a GMAT standpoint.
KW
(don't you love the past participle of swim?)
24 Apr 2015, 08:19
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Thanks Kyle
Definitely! I like the 'swum', which reminds me the swan!
I purposely want a situation in which we have two auxiliary verbs, as in the examples I have written, e.g. 'have' and 'been'.
According to my 'grammar book', if we have two auxiliary verbs, then 'either' follows the first one, and we do not to repeat the second one, as in the first example I have written. But it seems to me that this rule violates parallelism?! Isn't it?
I think it should be 'He has either been swimming or been playing tennis' to maintain the parallelism. (?)
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