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28 Jun 2016, 00:16
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Q. Although the ballerina seems healthy, she feels very unwell and is unlikely to dance well at tonight’s performance.
This sentence is in practice exercises of 'Modifiers' exercises. This has been reported as a correct answer in the exercise, is this question correct from parallelism point of view? "She feels very unwell" and "is unlikely to dance well" these are two fragments connected by "And" shouldn't these be parallel?
This sentence is in practice exercises of 'Modifiers' exercises. This has been reported as a correct answer in the exercise, is this question correct from parallelism point of view? "She feels very unwell" and "is unlikely to dance well" these are two fragments connected by "And" shouldn't these be parallel?
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28 Jun 2016, 01:03
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This is parallel. From a modifier perspective, what comes before the comma matches, "she." No problems there.
She feels very unwell = subject/verb/adjective and is unlikely to dance well = implied pronoun/verb/adjective. Parallel.
If by parallel you mean the verbs, feels is happening now but the dancing would happen in the future. So we can't say she feels unwell and is unlikely "dances" well, to dance is appropriate.
There's often confusion about parallel verbs. This doesn't necessary mean all verbs are in the same tense. Consider the order of events.
Hope this helps.
28 Jun 2016, 22:14
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Hi jjindal, feels and is are both verbs and hence correct from parallelism point of view. Another example:
John is healthy and runs 10k every day.
Again, is and runs, both verbs, making this sentence correct from parallelism point of view.
By the way, tenses and voice are not a part of parallelism (if this is what's confusing you). So, different parts of the sentence can be in different tense/voice.
