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by atulmangal » Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:35 pm
The art of Michelangelo, the inventions of Edison, and Shakespeare's plays all represent great
achievements in human history.

A The art of Michelangelo, the inventions of Edison, and Shakespeare's plays all represent great
achievements in human history.
B Michelangelo, Edison, and Shakespeare all represent great achievements in human history.
C All great achievements in human history are represented by the art of Michelangelo, the
inventions of Edison, and the plays of Shakespeare.
D The art of Michelangelo, the inventions of Edison, and the plays of Shakespeare all represent
great achievements in human history.
E Michelangelo's art, Edison's inventions, and Shakespeare's plays represent all great
achievements in human history.

Although this question has been discussed earlier also..and the OA is D...My doubt is when we deal with a list of nouns and check for parallelism...the nouns should agree in number or not???? here in the OA option D...inventions and plays are plural but i think the art is singular...is this correct???? are they parallel???
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by tetura84 » Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:22 am
Yes they are parallel.
In case of parallelism, the main point is, ideas should be in parallel.
Here we are talking about a list of great achievements in human history.
And what are they?
1. The art of Michelangelo
2. the inventions of Edison
3. the plays of Shakespeare
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by VivianKerr » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:53 am
Tetura is correct. This is a comparison question (similar to parallelism). The idea is that we can only compare things to things and people to people, but NOT people to thing.

For example:

CORRECT: The plays of Shakespeare are more famous than the plays of Marlowe.

Also CORRECT: The plays of Shakespeare are more famous than those of Marlowe.

Here we use a correct pronoun to take the place of "plays."

Also CORRECT: The plays of Shakespeare are more famous than Marlowe's.

Here the possessive indicates what is being compared.

INCORRECT: The plays of Shakespeare are more famous than Marlowe.

We need to compare the thing "plays" to the thing "plays." We cannot compare the "plays" (thing) to "Marlowe" (a person).
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by atulmangal » Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:13 am
VivianKerr wrote:Tetura is correct. This is a comparison question (similar to parallelism). The idea is that we can only compare things to things and people to people, but NOT people to thing.

For example:

CORRECT: The plays of Shakespeare are more famous than the plays of Marlowe.

Also CORRECT: The plays of Shakespeare are more famous than those of Marlowe.

Here we use a correct pronoun to take the place of "plays."

Also CORRECT: The plays of Shakespeare are more famous than Marlowe's.

Here the possessive indicates what is being compared.

INCORRECT: The plays of Shakespeare are more famous than Marlowe.

We need to compare the thing "plays" to the thing "plays." We cannot compare the "plays" (thing) to "Marlowe" (a person).
HI vivian,
Thanks for your such a useful post regarding comparisions...but i still have one doubt...see the below example

With companies spending large parts of their advertising budgets online, the market for content such as feature articles and opinion essays created by professional writers, bloggers, and individual users, is expanding rapidly.

here all the 3 Nouns (in bold) are parallel..and all are plural. Now my question is if out of these 3 nouns suppose one is plural and other 2 are singular...in that case, do we consider the sentence parallel..in short is this sentence parallel???

With companies spending large parts of their advertising budgets online, the market for content such as feature articles and opinion essays created by professional writers, blogger, and individual users, is expanding rapidly.

In parallelism, i understand we make similar things parallel..such as adj. to adj etc..but in case of nouns do we consider their number also??? Please explain..
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by Jim@Grockit » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:20 am
No, they don't need to be parallel in number. You can say baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie. (singular, plural, singular).
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by atulmangal » Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:48 am
Jim@Grockit wrote:No, they don't need to be parallel in number. You can say baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie. (singular, plural, singular).
Thank you very much Jim...your post clear my confusion

Thanks again
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