Parallelism - Clauses

Hi vitorpteixeira, it would be very limiting to follow this as a rule that parallel clauses must begin with the same word.

In this regard, you might also want to read a post I had made earlier.

Following is a similar officially correct sentence:

Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status.

Again, notice that one clause begins with who while the other with whose.

Hence, rather than looking for the same word, our book EducationAisle Sentence Correction Nirvana recommends the following approach:

i) Always look to the RHS of the parallelism indicator. In this case, the parallelism indicator is but and RHS is a dependent clause (whose reputation....).

ii) LHS of the parallelism indicator must have similar structure (in this case, dependent clause). In this case, since LHS does have the same structure (who receives...), the sentence is correct from a parallelism perspective.

p.s. Our book EducationAisle Sentence Correction Nirvana discusses this parallelism approach, its application and examples in significant detail. If someone is interested, PM me your email-id; I can mail the corresponding section.