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awahid14
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Post subject: Re: A recent poll indicates that many people in the United State  Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 2:03 pm |
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Hi,
In regards to response to possible answer
C)is a run on: "they denounce, they say" Both of those - "they denounce big government" and "
they say that government is doing too much" - are independent clauses and need to be connected
-are independent clauses able to be constructed in parallel structure so you can have something like "Guys replying to the survey said they sleep, they eat, and they watch tv"
Or is a conjunction still required?
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RonPurewal
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Post subject: Re: A recent poll indicates that many people in the United State Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 8:29 am |
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awahid14 wrote: -are independent clauses able to be constructed in parallel structure so you can have something like "Guys replying to the survey said they sleep, they eat, and they watch tv"
Or is a conjunction still required? the construction “x, y, and z” contains the conjunction “and” -- so i'm not sure what you are asking.
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Post subject: Re: A recent poll indicates that many people in the United State Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:51 am |
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Ron, although I arrived at (A) by eliminating others, I still dont understand how it is parallel.
As I understand,the main verbs in the sentence are denounce and support and they should be parallel. Instead the sentence is using denounce v/s supporting.
Please explain.
-saurav
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sauravkohli4
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Post subject: Re: A recent poll indicates that many people in the United State Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:42 am |
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RonPurewal
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Post subject: Re: A recent poll indicates that many people in the United State Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:10 pm |
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sauravkohli4 wrote: Ron, although I arrived at (A) by eliminating others, I still dont understand how it is parallel.
As I understand,the main verbs in the sentence are denounce and support and they should be parallel. Instead the sentence is using denounce v/s supporting.
Please explain.
-saurav "while" + verbING does not require parallelism. if you have X while Y as a single modifier, then parallelism would be ideal (e.g., James executed the stunt perfectly, balancing the plates while jumping across the pit); however, in the kind of structure that appears here, it's not necessary -- a lesson that you could infer by observing the structure of the correct answer.
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Post subject: Re: A recent poll indicates that many people in the United State Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:11 pm |
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sauravkohli4 wrote: Tutors, pls reply don't do this -- i.e., DO NOT post a message that says "please answer my question".this is called "bumping" the thread; it brings the thread up to the most recent position in the folder. the problem, of course -- besides the fact that "reminder posts" are rude and unprofessional -- is that we answer the posts strictly in order from oldest to newest. therefore, if you post a message, with no content, that says "please answer this post", then you are moving the thread to the LAST place in the queue.please be patient -- we will get to all of the threads. if you make posts like this one, you're just making yourself wait longer. thanks.
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Post subject: Re: A recent poll indicates that many people in the United State Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:00 am |
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Hi ,
Can you please explain why "saying" is correct??
SHouldn't it be 'saying that'?
thanks...
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Post subject: Re: A recent poll indicates that many people in the United State Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:12 am |
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st_t_sv wrote: Hi ,
Can you please explain why "saying" is correct??
SHouldn't it be 'saying that'?
thanks... it's ok to omit "that" between "say(ing)" and a clause like this one. read here: post8811.html
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