Hello magpie16, I understand that we can drop a common word ( to ) while writing a parallel structure. One can have 'to' before each element of parallel structure or can have only one 'to' in a parallel sentence applicable to all elements. However This rule does not apply when we have a correlative ...

Thanks for such a good explanation Mitch. I still have a doubt with option E. I don't see parallelism in infinitives 'to retire' and 'face' . As per my understanding, because of using correlative conjunction 'rather than' one must maintain parallelism in infinitives. Shouldn't it be saying: Doctors ...

Infant mortality in Industrialized vs less-developed country

An analysis of infant mortality shows that, over the last twenty years, the number of infant deaths in less-developed countries has been dropping at a faster rate than has the number of infant deaths in industrialized countries. As of this year, however, industrialized countries still have considera...

Any more: something additional or further
Example: I don’t want any more champagne.

Anymore: any longer, nowadays
Example: Harry doesn’t come to bar anymore.

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