Manhattan SC doubt

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Q. Although the ballerina seems healthy, she feels very unwell and is unlikely to dance well at tonight’s performance.

This sentence is in practice exercises of 'Modifiers' exercises. This has been reported as a correct answer in the exercise, is this question correct from parallelism point of view? "She feels very unwell" and "is unlikely to dance well" these are two fragments connected by "And" shouldn't these be parallel?

MBAPrepCoach · Answer

This is parallel. From a modifier perspective, what comes before the comma matches, "she." No problems there.

She feels very unwell = subject/verb/adjective and is unlikely to dance well = implied pronoun/verb/adjective. Parallel.

If by parallel you mean the verbs, feels is happening now but the dancing would happen in the future. So we can't say she feels unwell and is unlikely "dances" well, to dance is appropriate.

There's often confusion about parallel verbs. This doesn't necessary mean all verbs are in the same tense. Consider the order of events.

Hope this helps.

EducationAisle · Answer

Hi jjindal,  feels  and  is  are both  verbs  and hence correct from parallelism point of view. Another example:

John is healthy and runs 10k every day .

Again,  is  and  runs , both verbs, making this sentence correct from parallelism point of view.

By the way,  tenses  and  voice  are  not  a part of parallelism (if this is what's confusing you). So, different parts of the sentence can be in  different  tense/voice.

ccooley · Answer

Chiming in from MPrep! Ashish is 100% right on this, and that explains the example sentence entirely. Any two 'tensed verbs' are parallel (i.e. verbs that are just ordinary verbs, as opposed to -ing verbs or infinitives), even if they don't really look alike or aren't in the same tense. That's even true if one verb is active and the other is passive. So, these sentences would be okay on the GMAT:

She  feels  very unwell and  is  unlikely to dance well at tonight's performance.

He  ran  to first base but  was tagged out  by another player.

She  was impressed  by her classmate's GMAT score, and she  aspired  to do even better in the future.

Here's a sentence that's  not  okay on the GMAT:

I like  to dance  and  eating  food.

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