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Infinitives in open parallels [#permalink] New post   17 Feb 2017, 05:28
Many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs rather than facing low salaries in the city.

Answer given: Many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs rather than face low salaries in the city.

Shouldn't this be "rather than to face low salaries", i'm confused with 2 rules in parallelism.

1. Infinitives if occur in one part of the pair should be reflected in other.
i.e to run and to paly

3. Verbs derived from verbs, first word would count across all the elements
i.e they want to increase awareness, spark interest and motivate purchases.
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Re: Infinitives in open parallels [#permalink] New post   17 Feb 2017, 10:10
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Many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs rather than facing low salaries in the city.

Answer given: Many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs rather than face low salaries in the city.

Shouldn't this be "rather than to face low salaries", i'm confused with 2 rules in parallelism.

1. Infinitives if occur in one part of the pair should be reflected in other.
i.e to run and to paly

3. Verbs derived from verbs, first word would count across all the elements
i.e they want to increase awareness, spark interest and motivate purchases.


subject verb...rather than verb
Many teachers choose xyz rather than face abc.

X rather than Y is the right idiom.

why "rather than to face" is wrong? because this parallelism gives your wrong meaning. here is how:
Many teachers choose to seek employment
Many teachers choose to face low salaries --- you don't choose to face low salaries but you face low salaries.

so it is meaningful to write "choose and face" rather than "choose to seek and choose to face".
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Re: Infinitives in open parallels [#permalink] New post   17 Feb 2017, 20:29
Thank you, that's helpful :)

Do you have any inputs on how to find where 'X' starts in open parallels.
i.e: X rather than Y, Like in this sentence.

If there is any method to know rather than meaning, it would be very helpful.
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Re: Infinitives in open parallels [#permalink] New post   20 May 2017, 08:46
HKD1710 wrote:
Vignesh R wrote:
Many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs rather than facing low salaries in the city.

Answer given: Many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs rather than face low salaries in the city.

Shouldn't this be "rather than to face low salaries", i'm confused with 2 rules in parallelism.

1. Infinitives if occur in one part of the pair should be reflected in other.
i.e to run and to paly

3. Verbs derived from verbs, first word would count across all the elements
i.e they want to increase awareness, spark interest and motivate purchases.


subject verb...rather than verb
Many teachers choose xyz rather than face abc.

X rather than Y is the right idiom.

why "rather than to face" is wrong? because this parallelism gives your wrong meaning. here is how:
Many teachers choose to seek employment
Many teachers choose to face low salaries --- you don't choose to face low salaries but you face low salaries.

so it is meaningful to write "choose and face" rather than "choose to seek and choose to face".

Though your approach sound logical, it isnt correct as per manhattan. According to you answer X is 'choose to seek...' but the book says X to be 'seek employment in the suburbs'
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Re: Infinitives in open parallels [#permalink] New post   20 May 2017, 09:46
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Vignesh R wrote:
Thank you, that's helpful :)

Do you have any inputs on how to find where 'X' starts in open parallels.
i.e: X rather than Y, Like in this sentence.

If there is any method to know rather than meaning, it would be very helpful.


The absolute best way to do it, is to look at the very last parallel element in the sentence. That's the one right after the open marker.

For instance, look at this one:

I like to drink tea, eat broccoli and kale.

Look at the word 'and' - whatever comes right after that is what needs to be parallel. That's 'kale'. (And in this case, it isn't correct, since there's a verb attached to both of the other elements.)

Same with this sentence:

I like to eat broccoli, kale, and drink tea.

'drink tea' would have to be parallel - so you move backwards, and notice that there's no verb attached to 'kale'. So this one is wrong too.
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