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29 Nov 2022, 22:32
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The word "and" is just too common and useful a word for us to have any rules about using it twice. All you need to do is look at what each AND is joining.
Here's the overall structure:
The story recounted X and said Y.
So the first AND is joining the two main verbs of the sentence: recounted and said.
What's the second AND doing? Well, the second verb ("said") is followed by a modifier (THAT. . . ), and this modifier provides a statement about the mansion. The mansion a) contained 13 rooms and b) had the reputation of being haunted.
So the second AND is joining two verbs in the modifier. It has no real connection to the other AND, so it raises no issues of parallelism or comma usage.
29 Nov 2022, 22:43
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We can be sure that "that" in A-C does not mean mansion, since in each case it is followed by IT or THE MANSION. We're not likely to have 3 wrong answers that are basically saying "the mansion the mansion." That would be too much of a giveaway.
Unfortunately for us, THAT has a wide range of uses. When we see THAT after a verb, it is extending the clause to include a new subject and verb. For instance, if I say "She told me that the store was closing," THAT allows me to attach a new subject-verb pair ("the store was") to the existing clause. So if we give A its best chance, it is saying that the story recounted 3 things: 1) the history of the mansion, 2) that it contained 13 rooms, and 3) that it had a reputation for being a haunted house. However, this isn't great parallel structure--we're trying to make the facts in 2&3 parallel to a simple verb in 1. Also, we don't really "recount" facts (we recount stories), so 2&3 don't make much sense. Let me know if I can clarify any of that!
We can be sure that "that" in A-C does not mean mansion, since in each case it is followed by IT or THE MANSION. We're not likely to have 3 wrong answers that are basically saying "the mansion the mansion." That would be too much of a giveaway.
Unfortunately for us, THAT has a wide range of uses. When we see THAT after a verb, it is extending the clause to include a new subject and verb. For instance, if I say "She told me that the store was closing," THAT allows me to attach a new subject-verb pair ("the store was") to the existing clause. So if we give A its best chance, it is saying that the story recounted 3 things: 1) the history of the mansion, 2) that it contained 13 rooms, and 3) that it had a reputation for being a haunted house. However, this isn't great parallel structure--we're trying to make the facts in 2&3 parallel to a simple verb in 1. Also, we don't really "recount" facts (we recount stories), so 2&3 don't make much sense. Let me know if I can clarify any of that!
30 Nov 2022, 01:27
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Hey capsguy2018
Happy to help you with this.
Such questions test the Core Skill of being able to visualize the Structure of Sentences, particularly complex sentences such as choice E. This skill, if mastered, can help you identify grammatical and structural errors with ease. Allow me to demonstrate:
E: The newspaper story accurately recounted the history of the colonial mansion and said that the mansion contained thirteen rooms and had the reputation of being haunted.
Sentence Structure:
- o The newspaper story accurately
- o recounted the history of the colonial mansion and
- o said that the mansion
- o contained thirteen rooms and
- o had the reputation of being haunted.
Now, as you can see from the above, there are two separate lists in this sentence. The first list contains the two verbs of the subject "story": "recounted" and "said". The second list contains the two verb of the subject "mansion": "contained" and "had".
So, each of these lists contain only two entities.
Now, as per the Oxford Comma Rule, we need to place a comma before "and" in lists of three entities or more, and not in a list of only two entities.
This is why choice E does not have a comma error.
Coming to your second question:
Parallelism needs to be maintained between entities within one list. For instance, in Choice E, the verbs "recounted" and "said" are parallel because they are part of the same list. On the other hand, the verbs "contained" and "had" are parallel because they are part of the same list. But, the verbs "recounted" and "said" are not parallel to the verbs "contained" and "had". This is because they are not part of the same list.
I hope this response helps you understand parallelism and the core skill of identifying the structure of complex sentences.
Happy Learning!
Abhishek
