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Bunuel How does A fail to maintain parallelism?


The four components in the provided lists are plan, edit, publish and write. They need to have similar structure.
It can be - not to plan it, to edit it, to publish it, but to write it
Also since 'to' is common for all components, the statement can be rewritten as - not to plan it, edit it , publish it, but write it.

In A, the last component shouldn't have a 'to' attached to it as 'to' is already taken common for all components.
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Bunuel How does A fail to maintain parallelism?

not to plan it, edit it, publish it, but to simply write it.

had it been not to plan it, edit it, publish it, but simply write it - then it would have been correct

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not to plan it, to edit it, to publish it, but to simply write it - this is also correct
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