Raksat wrote:
daagh wrote:
A) as mass market fraud: deceptive pitches that arrive by telephone, in the mail, and the Internet --- The clause has no prepositional parallelism. That arrive – by telephone, in the mail and ( no preposition) the internet
B)to be mass market fraud: deceptive pitches that arrive by telephone, the mail, and by the Internet ---- 'known to be' is unidiomatic, 'known as' is the correct idiom
C)to be mass market fraud; they are deceptive pitches that arrive by telephone, in the mail, and the Internet—same as in B
D)as mass market fraud, deceptive pitches that arrive by telephone, mail, and the Internet – The correct choice; the lack of prepositional parallelism has been amended by dropping the preposition for the second and the third item
E)as mass market fraud, which are deceptive pitches that arrive by telephone, mail, and through the Internet – The second item namely ‘mail’ is not having a preposition while the other two have.
Sir
In your explanation of "as mass market fraud, deceptive pitches that arrive by telephone, mail, and
the Internet " The definite article is placed only before one item and not the other items. Does this have any relevance in general because i have seen in some questions where the placement of"the" is a decision point.
daagh , can you remember the issue with the presence or absence of "the"?
I recall only one such question at the moment, which I read today.
In that case, "the" was required in order to specify a particular kind of snail.
"The" needed to precede "freshwater snails" because the sentence
identified a particular kind of snail (freshwater snails that host a disease-bearing parasite).
Do the questions you recall involve choosing between
a general noun and a specific noun? For example:
Someone should call a doctor! (Any doctor)
Someone should call the doctor! (A specific doctor)
The sentences in this problem involve prepositional parallelism
by telephone,
in the mail, and [
----]the Internet
by telephone, [
____] the mail, and
by the Internet
by telephone,
in the mail, and
[-----] the Internet
by telephone, mail, and the Internet
by telephone, mail, and
through the Internet
The reference to "
the Internet" is correct.
1) the Internet, whether
whether capitalized or not requires THE
2) That said, the preposition should probably be "THROUGH"
the Internet, not "BY."
Regardless of which preposition shows up, "Internet" requires
the definite article "the."
"arrive . . . through Internet" is not correct
"arrive by . . . Internet" is not correct
CORRECT: I found the recipe on the Internet.
WRONG: I found the recipe
on Internet.CORRECT: He downloaded the book from the Internet.
WRONG: He downloaded the book
from Internet.
CORRECT: She found the job through the Internet.
WRONG: She found the job
through Internet.CORRECT: We communicated with one another over the Internet by using Hangouts.
WRONG: We communicated with one another
over Internet by using Hangouts.
In the list of objects (phone, mail, Internet), "Internet" requires "the"
and the other two do not. That fact by itself does not create a lack of parallelism.
If I wanted to describe change over time, for example,
I might say, "The Internet has revolutionized
methods of communication,
access to information, and
the culture of this nation."
The first two nouns do not require an article. The third, in this context, does.
That sentence has no parallelism errors.
As long as you are able to identify the distinction between A and THE,
and to identify very occasional instances in which specificity requires THE,
I would not worry about the issue.
Even in the
OG question to which I alluded (snails),
other errors in the options made the options incorrect.
If you can find
OG questions in which the correct
answer hinges on the presence or absence of an article,
definite or indefinite, and you have doubts or questions,
find where the
OG questions are posted on this site and
express your doubt.
We will be happy to help.
I hope this answer helps.
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Updated on: 23 Apr 2018, 19:37
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