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There are several schools that allow students to either eat their lunch in the
school cafeteria or outside on the playground.
(A) allow students to either eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(B) allow students to eat either their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(C) allow students to eat their lunch in either the school cafeteria or outside
(D) either allow students to eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(E) allow students to eat their lunch either in the school cafeteria or outside



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either .. in has to be parallel.

in the school area ............ outside on the playground --> are parallel

so option E.
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E for me either in ... Or outside

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either .. in has to be parallel.

in the school area ............ outside on the playground --> are parallel

so option E.
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please explain whats wrong with the C
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+1 for E.

C is wrong because of "in either ...".

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E)

either A or B where A and B should be parallel.. so its either In or Out NOT its In either or Out
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Correct idiom "either X or Y" so that x and Y should be ||.

The only choice which is corect is E.


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There are several schools that allow students to either eat their lunch in the
school cafeteria or outside on the playground.
(A) allow students to either eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(B) allow students to eat either their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(C) allow students to eat their lunch in either the school cafeteria or outside
(D) either allow students to eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(E) allow students to eat their lunch either in the school cafeteria or outside
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There are several schools that allow students to either eat their lunch in the
school cafeteria or outside on the playground.
(A) allow students to either eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(B) allow students to eat either their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(C) allow students to eat their lunch in either the school cafeteria or outside
(D) either allow students to eat their lunch in the school cafeteria or outside
(E) allow students to eat their lunch either in the school cafeteria or outside

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either .. in has to be parallel.

in the school area ............ outside on the playground --> are parallel

so option E.

please explain whats wrong with the C
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Hi Warlock007,
For your doubt. Let's replace c in original sentence.
There are several schools that allow students to eat their lunch in either the school cafeteria or outside on the playground.
Removing phrases so that we can see parallelism clearly.
There are several schools that allow students to eat their lunch in either the school cafeteria or outside on the playground.

So the idiom is Either X or Y. Where X and Y should be parallel.
Here "The school cafeteria" is not parallel to "outside on the playground". Why ? School cafeteria is parallel to playground not with the phrase "outside on the playground".

Please revert if any question.


I hope my explanation helped. If indeed then please give me kudos.



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