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no body for E?

I go for E ...

either "verb" or "verb" --> either in decline or was it
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guys i have a confusion here:
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shud it not be C, which states "Indus civilization was either in......or was militarily vulnerable."
Is this not parallelism?

though in the actual test i wud have gone with D.
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I go D for parallelism
either X or Y => where X & Y are parallel
No other option is parallel
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OA is given as D.
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guys i have a confusion here:
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shud it not be C, which states "Indus civilization was either in......or was militarily vulnerable."
Is this not parallelism?

though in the actual test i wud have gone with D.
"either" is followed by the phrase "in danger", no verb, so in order to retain parallelism after "or" it is suficient to use phrase "military vulnerable" without any verb.
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I would go with D.

'either' begins after 'was'. hence it is understood that 'was' needs not be repeated.



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