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I want some help on parallelism. Please consider the following two statements.
1. Most efforts to fight malaria have focused either ON the vaccination of humans or exterminating mosquitoes with pesticides 2. Australian embryologists have found evidence to suggest THAT the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal andTHAT its trunk originally evolved as a kind of snorkel.
While "ON" is not repeated for the clauses to be parallel in statement 1, "That" is repeated in both the parallel clauses in statement 2 for it to be correct. Is there any grammatical concept governing such repetitions?
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I want some help on parallelism. Please consider the following two statements.
1. Most efforts to fight malaria have focused either ON the vaccination of humans or exterminating mosquitoes with pesticides 2. Australian embryologists have found evidence to suggest THAT the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal andTHAT its trunk originally evolved as a kind of snorkel.
While "ON" is not repeated for the clauses to be parallel in statement 1, "That" is repeated in both the parallel clauses in statement 2 for it to be correct. Is there any grammatical concept governing such repetitions?
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To sum up.
The statement 1 : here the ON is not a parallel list. It is actually Either... Or. This is called as the Correlative conjunctions. The below are few of them.
1. Not only X but also Y 2. Neither X nor Y. 3. Both X and Y. 4. Either X or Y (as in the statement-1)
Note : These always joins grammatically equal sentences, for example-noun & noun, phrase & phrase.
Statement 2:
This contains the clause, and hence the parallel clause must begin with same word. In this case it is "That"
Generally, parallel sentence should be grammatically as well as logically parallel.
For more information and concepts, please look at the below posts.
I want some help on parallelism. Please consider the following two statements.
1. Most efforts to fight malaria have focused either ON the vaccination of humans or exterminating mosquitoes with pesticides 2. Australian embryologists have found evidence to suggest THAT the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal andTHAT its trunk originally evolved as a kind of snorkel.
While "ON" is not repeated for the clauses to be parallel in statement 1, "That" is repeated in both the parallel clauses in statement 2 for it to be correct. Is there any grammatical concept governing such repetitions?
Thanks! Gnpth and mikemcgarry. The responses are very helpful in clearing the confusion.
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