What is Parrallelism

Question

Anybody?

ps_dahiya · Answer

A

||ism: that is X and   extending

Futuristic · Answer

B for me

Professor · Answer

why? nothing wrong with A.

freetheking · Answer

A.. for ||

pelihu · Answer

I'm going to cast my vote for B as well. I think the key verb in the sentence is 'is', and the sentence could be reduced to read 'fungus...that is an interwoven filigree...and  extends  for more than ...

I'd be interested to see the OA. Is this a question from the OG, I think I've seen it before.

freetheking · Answer

Yes, it's from OG..

an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles  spawned  by a single fertilized spore some 10,300 years ago and (an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles)  extending  for more than 33 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest

rbcola · Answer

OA is in fact A.

aryanb · Answer

The answer is infact A.

OG 11 categorizes this problem as "particlple + verb tense". To get a brief idea about particlpe, both past and present, do check on the wiki ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participle

Particple is basically a "verbal adjective" just as Gerund is a "verbal noun".

Additionally, past participle is used when the noun in consideration is passively involved. ex ... a giant fungus ... "spawned" by a spore.
- the giant fungus is acted on. It is the spore that "spawns".

So to maintain parallelism, the latter half should also be a participle and not a verb as in the case of "b" and "e".

Since the action is present i.e the fungus is still there and continues to grow, both "c" and "d" fail.

So putting all of the above consideration together, the latter part of the sentence should be a present particle - "extending"

hence A.

vij101 · Answer

Just my two cents worth.
Scientists have discovered....LIVING organism. therefore extending is the right term which describes something that continues now

Futuristic · Answer

I see my mistake now, its the tentacles which are under the soil, so extends/extending would refer to the tentacles, not the mushroom. If it referred to the mushroom, the answer I chose would be correct. THe sentence clarifies this later by saying the this was in the soil.....only the rootlike tentacles could be in the soil.

karlfurt · Answer

I understand that for // participles are required.

But even if it is a LIVING organism, it doesn't mean that it needs to grow further. It can have extended till 1000 years ago and then stop to grow. Like trees or hairs. There is a point where they don't grow anymore. 

This consideration led me to choose D(extended). I don't see any absolute rule requiring the fungus to keep extending...

Am I wrong?

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