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Vsuresh Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Sentence correctness

Hi

Please tell me if the change I made is correct. ( Faulty Parallelism)


Natalia’s parents told her that she must agree to either attend college or to work work in the family business.

  

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It's parallel now, but I have to say that I like to repeat the structural elements for the sake of clarity, so I would have done it differently. (either to ... ) Natalia’s parents told her that she must agree [either [to attend college]] [or [to work in the family business]].

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It's parallel now, but I have to say that I like to repeat the structural elements for the sake of clarity, so I would have done it differently. (either to ... or to ...)

Natalia’s parents told her that she must agree
[either [to attend college]]
[or [to work in the family business]].

It might be going too far, however, to do this:

Natalia’s