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by GMATMadeEasy » Fri May 06, 2011 10:06 am
There are three examples for parallelism:

I want to retire to a place WHERE I can relax AND THAT has low taxes. (Incorrect;Where and THAT not allowed when "where" can be used again)

I want to retire to a place WHERE I can relax AND WHERE the taxes are low. (Correct)

I want to retire to a place WHERE I can relax AND the taxes are low. (Is it correct ?)

Normally, we can consider where is in the beginning for both the clauses i.e.

I want to retire to a place WHERE
I can relax AND
the taxes are low.

or for wh words (where,how,whether etc), there is strict parallelism to be used ? Source of the first two sentences is Manhattan SC Guide.
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by atulmangal » Fri May 06, 2011 8:17 pm
I believe a strict parallelism is required...I'm sure about the strict parallelism in case of THAT and HOW as i have seen many questions where correct option is following a strict parallelism and incorrect options are dropped for same reasons...and i'm sure in case of WHERE/WHEN also we need strict parallelism.
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by bubbliiiiiiii » Sat May 07, 2011 2:37 am
I want to retire to a place WHERE I can relax AND the taxes are low. (Is it correct ?)

Normally, we can consider where is in the beginning for both the clauses i.e.

I want to retire to a place WHERE
I can relax AND
the taxes are low.
Yes .. it is correct.

Correct form of parallelism include the following,

I want to retire to a place WHERE X and WHERE Y.

I want to retire to a place WHERE X and Y.
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by Jim@Grockit » Sun May 08, 2011 10:43 am
bubbliiiiiiii wrote:
I want to retire to a place WHERE I can relax AND the taxes are low. (Is it correct ?)

Normally, we can consider where is in the beginning for both the clauses i.e.

I want to retire to a place WHERE
I can relax AND
the taxes are low.
Yes .. it is correct.

Correct form of parallelism include the following,

I want to retire to a place WHERE X and WHERE Y.

I want to retire to a place WHERE X and Y.
Well said.

Added content: you also don't need strict parallelism of the "wh- words" themselves, as in I will retire when I want, where I want, and how I want.
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