MartyTargetTestPrep wrote:
kchen1994 wrote:
For answer choice B, I am failing to see how it is not parallel. "purchasers are discouraged by THE FACT, as well as THE COMPETITION. Both are nouns and they both follow the same structure. Why is this not parallel?
Good catch.
While a second "by" after "as well as" would perhaps make (B) easier to read, (B) is basically parallel as written.
Meanwhile, in (C), the placement of "increasingly" is suboptimal. It makes more sense to place "increasingly" directly before "discouraged," as "increasingly" is in (B).
The point to be made is not that the purchasers "increasingly are" something. The point to be made is that the purchasers are "increasingly discouraged."
At the same time, in (B), "by the fact that x and that y" does not make complete sense. We have two facts, but the singular "fact" is used. Ideally, either "fact" would be repeated before the second "that" or the plural "facts" would be used.
Hello
MartyTargetTestPrep,
I was wondering whether you could help me regarding the following question.
First of all I understand how By (the fact) - By the competition are parallel my only issue is with the first pararallelism "by the fact that x and that y" .
I'm a little bit confused and I would appreciate your opinion on the following , because
by the fact (that x and that y) could carry over to both
that x and
that y so even if it is not written don't we consider that by the fact goes to both elements(carry over test for parallelism)? By the fact that x and by the fact that y, thus it does make sense, and we don't need a plural.
If we changed the fact to
the facts then I suppose we would have by the facts
that x and that y and we wouldn't consider to check whether by the facts carries over to the following elements because they are already parallel?