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That's exactly right, it does! Just goes to show that we can't look for what is right with SC -- we need to look to cross off wrong answers rather than justify right ones.
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In Ponoma College, a rule has been passed that permits students to cook and serve their food, as well as to buy it.
A. permits students to cook and serve their food, as well as to buy it. correct parallelism
B. permits students to cook, serve and to buy their food.
C. permits students to cook, to serve and buy food.
D. will permit the student to cook, serve as well as to buy food.
E. will permit food to be cooked,served as well as bought by students
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The important thing to note here is that once we have a hint of //ism being tested, we must decide the various arms of the //ism involved. There may be two arms or seemingly more than two arms and the last one of the series must be connected either by a conjunction ‘and’ or by a prepositional phrase such as ‘as well as’.

In this case, three are three things listed i.e., cook, serve and buy; are they all independent actions?. No, not all; ‘to cook and serve’ is one item, and ‘to buy’ is another item. You can’t disturb the structure of ‘to cook and serve’.

You must now see that ‘to cook and serve’ and ‘to buy’ or ‘as wells to buy’ are structurally and logically //.You can see only A does not split the ‘cook and serve’. All other choices consider ‘cook and serve’ as separate activities by dropping the ‘and’ between them. That is why they fall by the wayside.

Thanks for this reply. Aligns perfectly with my thoughts.
I chose B, however, because I thought (and) is implicit between cook and server by usage of comma between them. Could you help clarify if this assumption is always wrong?
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The important thing to note here is that once we have a hint of //ism being tested, we must decide the various arms of the //ism involved. There may be two arms or seemingly more than two arms and the last one of the series must be connected either by a conjunction ‘and’ or by a prepositional phrase such as ‘as well as’.

In this case, three are three things listed i.e., cook, serve and buy; are they all independent actions?. No, not all; ‘to cook and serve’ is one item, and ‘to buy’ is another item. You can’t disturb the structure of ‘to cook and serve’.

You must now see that ‘to cook and serve’ and ‘to buy’ or ‘as wells to buy’ are structurally and logically //.You can see only A does not split the ‘cook and serve’. All other choices consider ‘cook and serve’ as separate activities by dropping the ‘and’ between them. That is why they fall by the wayside.

Thanks for this reply. Aligns perfectly with my thoughts.
I chose B, however, because I thought (and) is implicit between cook and server by usage of comma between them. Could you help clarify if this assumption is always wrong?

permits students to cook, serve and to buy their food.
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permits students to cook + serve and to buy their food.
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In Ponoma College, a rule has been passed that permits students to cook and serve their food, as well as to buy it.

A. permits students to cook and serve their food, as well as to buy it.
B. permits students to cook, serve and to buy their food.
C. permits students to cook, to serve and buy food.
D. will permit the student to cook, serve as well as to buy food.
E. will permit food to be cooked,served as well as bought by students

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This question deals with parallel structure. The important thing to realize here is that commas function differently from conjunctions in what they imply about parallel structure. If you say ‘to cook, serve’, you are not using parallel structure. If you say to cook and serve, you are using parallel structure. The ‘and’ carries the implied structure over, the comma does not. Choices B, D and E make this mistake. Choice C has a more straightforward mistake in parallel structure: it is missing the ‘to’ in ‘to buy’. D and E also use the wrong tense and therefore change the meaning. Choice A is the correct answer.
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in option a,
"permits students to cook and serve their food, as well as to buy it".
can it not be considered that as well as is adding 'to buy' to the list of cook and serve and putting it parallel to their combination and is hence faulty.
eg : he likes to play and sing as well as dance - is correct as it puts all 3 in parallel not dance parallel to the combination of play and sing
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