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Parallelism [#permalink] New post   14 Dec 2014, 21:06
MGMAT SC 5th Edition page 57 has following sentence mentioned:

Wrong: I want to retire to a place WHERE I can relax AND I pay low taxes.

I splitted this sentence into

I want to retire to a place WHERE (I (subject) can(verb) relax(object) AND I(subject) pay(verb) low(adjective) taxes(object) ).

Why is it wrong?

However, it mentioned: "I want to retire to a place WHERE I can relax AND WHERE I pay low taxes." as correct. I agree to right choice but why wrong choice is wrong?
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Parallelism [#permalink] New post   15 Dec 2014, 11:35
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Wrong: I want to retire to a place WHERE I can relax AND I pay low taxes.

Correct Idiom is X and Y .

X & Y needs to be parallel.

in this wrong sentence:
X =I want to retire to a place WHERE I can relax

AND

Y = I want to retire to a place I pay low taxes.

X & Y are not parallel because WHERE is missing in the Y.

you can say that we can take "where" as common word ( so called ellipses). you may be right in other cases but not in this case. you can get judgement from the meaning of the sentence. in this case absence of WHERE in Y making this sentence not clear in its intended meaning.

i hope that would be helpful.
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Re: Parallelism [#permalink] New post   15 Dec 2014, 22:10
Thanks Sushant to write explantation. It was great help.


321kumarsushant wrote:
Wrong: I want to retire to a place WHERE I can relax AND I pay low taxes.

Correct Idiom is X and Y .

X & Y needs to be parallel.

in this wrong sentence:
X =I want to retire to a place WHERE I can relax

AND

Y = I want to retire to a place I pay low taxes.

X & Y are not parallel because WHERE is missing in the Y.

you can say that we can take "where" as common word ( so called ellipses). you may be right in other cases but not in this case. you can get judgement from the meaning of the sentence. in this case absence of WHERE in Y making this sentence not clear in its intended meaning.

i hope that would be helpful.
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Re: Parallelism [#permalink] New post   02 May 2021, 05:16
I dint understand the context here why the intended meaning will not make sense if we wont place the second where ?
Could you please suggest
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Re: Parallelism [#permalink] New post   03 May 2021, 04:50
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swatib28 wrote:
I dint understand the context here why the intended meaning will not make sense if we wont place the second where ?
Could you please suggest

Hi Swati, repetition of a relative pronoun (where in this sentence) is more often a matter of preference.

I address this issue of repetition of a relative pronoun here .
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