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01 Sep 2020, 08:52
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First of all, note that "caused" is a simple past verb here: "Early administrative decisions... caused a drastic fall in tax revenues."
It wouldn't make sense for "failed" (a verb) to be parallel to the verb "caused" because the DECISIONS themselves did not fail to make sufficient investment.
Instead, we need something parallel to the preceding list of nouns: (1) drastic fall in tax revenues, (2) a reduction in military preparedness, and (3) the collapse. All of those are things that the early administrative decisions CAUSED. So after the "as well as" we want another thing that the early administrative decisions CAUSED.
That's exactly what we get in choice (E): "a failure to make sufficient investment." This noun phrase represents another thing that was caused by the decisions.
I hope that helps!
ravigupta2912
26 Nov 2020, 21:59
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I get that we are trying to make a parallel between the "caused A, B and C" and "failure to" - nouns and nouns. But if i remove the parallel element 1 i.e. caused A, B and C, the sentence would become as under:-
Early administrative decisions in China’s Ming Dynasty a failure to make sufficient investment in vital transportation infrastructure.
Isn't this sentence a fragment? Where is the verb for the subject (arly administrative decisions in China’s Ming Dynasty)
And if we are making all 4 elements parallel to each other then why do we need "and" before the "collapse"? Caused A, B, C as well as D?
I'm really confused here.
Early administrative decisions in China’s Ming Dynasty a failure to make sufficient investment in vital transportation infrastructure.
Isn't this sentence a fragment? Where is the verb for the subject (arly administrative decisions in China’s Ming Dynasty)
And if we are making all 4 elements parallel to each other then why do we need "and" before the "collapse"? Caused A, B, C as well as D?
I'm really confused here.
26 Nov 2020, 23:03
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I believe as well as is not strictly a parallelism trigger, and should be substituted by in addition to.
Early administrative decisions in China’s Ming Dynasty caused a failure to make sufficient investment in vital transportation infrastructure.
In other words, caused is outside the parallelism structure.
ravigupta2912
Shouldn't it be:
Early administrative decisions in China’s Ming Dynasty caused a failure to make sufficient investment in vital transportation infrastructure.
In other words, caused is outside the parallelism structure.
