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27 Nov 2013, 17:52
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In the first Magoosh video on Parallelism, I saw the following sentence:
Just as carrying heavy objects does not lengthen one's arms, so hanging upside-down does not make one taller.
The video stated that it was parallel, but I disagree, because "upside-down" is an adverb, since it modifies "hanging" while there is no corresponding adverb after "just as" and before "so". Can someone explain the gap in my thinking?
Just as carrying heavy objects does not lengthen one's arms, so hanging upside-down does not make one taller.
The video stated that it was parallel, but I disagree, because "upside-down" is an adverb, since it modifies "hanging" while there is no corresponding adverb after "just as" and before "so". Can someone explain the gap in my thinking?
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Dear TooLong150,
I'm happy to help.
Parallelism is tricky, because it's not a precise mathematical process. It's a logical structure, more than a grammar structure. What is parallel in this grammatical structure is simply the fact that there are two independent clauses with parallel logical ideas.
Just as [independent clause #1], so [independent clause #2].
What makes them parallel is the logical link in the ideas --- in both cases, the human musculature, bearing some kind of load, does not lengthen. That's what makes this parallel. The parallelism is reinforced by the fact that both subjects are gerunds, but the fact that one gerund has an adverb and doesn't is completely irrelevant to the issue of parallelism.
Does all this make sense?
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