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Idiom vs Parallelism

by tinyturtle » Fri Aug 09, 2013 9:09 pm
I have learned that "Just as X so Y"

In Manhattan book, we have an idiom "AS ...SO"

"JUST AS you practice, SO shall you play"

I donnot understand why after "AS" is "you" but after "SO" is the verb "shall". The sentence does not parallel.

Could someone help explain?
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by [email protected] » Sat Aug 10, 2013 8:40 am
Hi tinyturtle,

The 2-part phrase "Just as...so...." will involve parallelism (as you've learned).

The phrase also includes a style issue: While most parts of the 2 phrases will be parallel, the first word after "so" is almost never parallel with the first part of the sentence.

For example:

Just as students study for the GMAT, so DO students study for the LSAT.

In this case, the word "do" doesn't parallel anything in the first part of the sentence, but the rest of the phrase does. This is ok. It's just a quirk in the grammar.

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