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28 Aug 2022, 02:45
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Hi guys,
As I was studying for the GMAT a doubt on parallelism downed on me. I'll exemplify it through an example that should make it clearer in case anyone more expert than me would like to jump in:
- John contributed to archeology through new discoveries and by documenting old ones.
"Through" and "by" are both prepositions, but in this case the first one is followed by a noun while the second one is followed by a verb in the 'ing' form.
Consequently I'm not sure whether this sentence could still be considered parallel or not.
Anyone knows whether this sentence would be considered right or wrong on the GMAT?
As I was studying for the GMAT a doubt on parallelism downed on me. I'll exemplify it through an example that should make it clearer in case anyone more expert than me would like to jump in:
- John contributed to archeology through new discoveries and by documenting old ones.
"Through" and "by" are both prepositions, but in this case the first one is followed by a noun while the second one is followed by a verb in the 'ing' form.
Consequently I'm not sure whether this sentence could still be considered parallel or not.
Anyone knows whether this sentence would be considered right or wrong on the GMAT?
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28 Aug 2022, 04:30
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The sentence is not properly parallel and would almost certainly be wrong.
The following is fine: John contributed to archeology by making new discoveries and by documenting old ones.
There must be many other ways of making the sentence parallel.
But in the GMAT we do not judge right/wrong in isolation. We compare with the other answers.
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28 Aug 2022, 05:28
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Yes I understand your point on the answer comparison, vv65.
I did not post any answer choice because my main purpose was to understand whether the sentence reported is parallel and whether it therefore contains a definitive error, regardless of the other answer choices.
From what you said, I understand that for a sentence to be parallel I cannot rely just on the prepositions that start correctly the two 'legs', but I also have to rely on what follows right after, e.g. verb, noun, or modifier. Correct?
I did not post any answer choice because my main purpose was to understand whether the sentence reported is parallel and whether it therefore contains a definitive error, regardless of the other answer choices.
From what you said, I understand that for a sentence to be parallel I cannot rely just on the prepositions that start correctly the two 'legs', but I also have to rely on what follows right after, e.g. verb, noun, or modifier. Correct?
