Does it pay to memorize the most common parallelism markers?

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by san2009 » Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:33 am

For those of you who have taken the test
1) Does it pay to 50 most common memorize the parallelism/comparison markers so that they are visible right away when reading an SC question?
2) If yes, then does such a list exist on the web?
Thanks.

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by tpr-becky » Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:05 pm

I am not completetly familiar with the 50 markers but I think it is very important to recognize that if you have "and" or "or" in a sentence then there may be a parallel issue and whenever a comparison is being made that is also a parallelism issue. When any of these three scenarios happen I check the elements in the sentence for parallelism.

Becky
Master GMAT Instructor
The Princeton Review
Irvine, CA

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