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| Query regarding Parallelism |
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Query2 --
While working on questions in page 91 Many teachers have chosen to seek employment in the suburbs rather than face low salaries in the city In my opinion , it shd be Many teachers have chosen to seek employment in the suburbs rather than TO face low salaries in the city Tutors, I am getting confused day by day seeing such questions and completely confused when to repeat the preposition after the Conjunction . Please help... [b[/b] |
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| Re: Querr 2 -parallelism |
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Ron Purewal
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always remember that we don't make the rules; we're just a mouthpiece for the rules that the gmat test writers choose to follow. one of those rules is the idea that it's ok to omit 'to' from infinitives after #1 in a series. (for a problem that is closely related to this one, see #40 in the purple og11 verbal supplement. DO NOT post any specifics related to that question here.) -- in general, here's the rule to follow with omitting helping words such as 'to': if you need to repeat the word to prevent some sort of ambiguity, repeat it. if the parts of the parallel construction are obnoxiously long, to the point where the parallel construction itself would be difficult to discern WITHOUT the repeated helping word, repeat the word. otherwise, don't repeat the word (in the name of concision). |
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