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by MinnieLiu » Tue Oct 15, 2013 1:04 am
From the Manhattan SC:
The flower bouquet was the husband's giving of love to his wife.
The two sides of the being verb was are flower bouquet and husband's giving of love.Why are the two sides not structurally parallel?
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by Mission2012 » Tue Oct 15, 2013 3:00 am
HI MinnieLiu,

The problem is not with parallelism but if an action noun (gift) is present then one should not use complex gerund. Complex gerunds are more complicated then action nouns.

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MinnieLiu wrote:From the Manhattan SC:
The flower bouquet was the husband's giving of love to his wife.
The two sides of the being verb was are flower bouquet and husband's giving of love.Why are the two sides not structurally parallel?
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by MinnieLiu » Tue Oct 15, 2013 9:58 pm
But this is really from Parallelism.The Manhattan SC said that these two sides are not ctructurally parallel.In order to achieve parallelism, we can rewrite the sentence replacing giving with the noun gift,so that the two sides of the being verb are structurally similar:The flower bouquet was the husband's loving gift to his wife.
Mission2012 wrote:HI MinnieLiu,

The problem is not with parallelism but if an action noun (gift) is present then one should not use complex gerund. Complex gerunds are more complicated then action nouns.

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by vinay1983 » Tue Oct 15, 2013 10:19 pm
Try to understand what the sentence conveys. the husband"gifted the flower bouquet", so "he flower bouquet was a loving(adjective) "gift" to his wife. This is correct. "Gifting" is a process and not something that can be "gifted".

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