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by GMATGuruNY » Sun Oct 24, 2010 2:11 pm
GMATMadeEasy wrote:@GMATGURUNY :
The correct idioms are either are not X but Y or are not X but are Y. Eliminate A and B.
Q1> I ignore for the moment that due to is incorrect here . Can we really eliminate A and B for those reasons ? WHy ?

"But that they are" and but they are" simple take subject of the previous clause and ,in my opinion, can we written this way .

Q2 > I would like to know the usage of "that" in "But that they are" ? Why ? I understand that parallelism requires "that " to be used if second clause is independent (I said that clause1 and that clause2), but , if second clause is treated as independent, an it take the subject of the first clase as is the case here ? in "but that they are " and in "but they are" both "they" reer to the subject of the previous clasue.
If the second half of the sentence is not completing the idiom not X but Y, then it should offer a contrast that is parallel with the subject and main verb of the first clause (paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has argued). For example:

Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has argued that X...but others claim that Y...

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by GMATMadeEasy » Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:20 am
Thanks GMATGuruNY , it certainly helps and clarifies another issue .

Let me ty my best to put my question again .

1. Jennifer told me that Marc ,her poor husband, is a nice person and that his mother is a wonderful lady .

2. Jennifer told me that Marc ,her poor husband, is a nice person and his mother is a wonderful lady .

Question : I under stand if claueses are independent we need "and that" in second part for parallelism. But what if second clause is independent but borrow part of subject as pronoun (in example his mother), in this case, we use that in second phrase or not ?
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