Parallelism - Sentence Correction
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20 Jan 2024, 08:53
Hi,
I am having too much trouble with parallelism in 700+ questions. Everytime the questions seem to follow a new rule
Like, we know the idiom for parallelism is Neither... nor... , but in this question it is not .. or
A study of children of divorced parents found that ten years after the parents' divorce, children who had been under six years of age at the time of the settlement were not preoccupied, nor even very curious, about the reasons that led to their parents' divorce.
(A) not preoccupied, nor even very curious, about the reasons that led to their parents' divorce
(B) not preoccupied with, or even very curious about, the reasons for their parents' divorce
(C) neither preoccupied, nor even very curious, with the reasons that led to their parents divorce
(D) neither preoccupied with the reasons that led to their parents' divorces or even very curious about them
(E) neither preoccupied with the reasons that their parents divorced nor even very curious about it
In this question Not only .. but also has not been used
Not only did the systematic clearing of forests in the United States create farmland (especially in the Northeast) and gave consumers relatively inexpensive houses and furniture, but it also caused erosion and very quickly deforested whole regions.
(A) Not only did the systematic clearing of forests in the United States create farmland (especially in the Northeast) and gave consumers relatively inexpensive houses and furniture, but it also
(B) Not only did the systematic clearing of forests in the United States create farmland (especially in the Northeast), which gave consumers relatively inexpensive houses and furniture, but also
(C) The systematic clearing of forests in the United States, creating farmland (especially in the Northeast) and giving consumers relatively inexpensive houses and furniture, but also
(D) The systematic clearing of forests in the United States created farmland (especially in the Northeast) and gave consumers relatively inexpensive houses and furniture, but it also
(E) The systematic clearing of forests in the United States not only created farmland (especially in the Northeast), giving consumers relatively inexpensive houses and furniture, but it
Similarly there are many other such questions, which i am getting wrong. I am getting wrong 8/10 questions which are above 700+.
Kindly suggest how to improve these questions.
THanks