qwerty12321 wrote:"The Employees were upset by the company's low pay, poor working condition, and they do not have enough outlets for their creativity."
In this MGMAT SC question why is company's counted across all the 3 elements?
Can we
i) Count an adjective across a parallelism?
ii) Count an adverb across a parallelism?
What all can we count across a parallelism?
Thanks
Almost any grammatical element can be a parallel element. Here are several correct ways to write this sentence:
Parallel nouns, all modified by the possessive "company's":
The Employees were upset by the company's...
1. low pay,
2. poor working conditions, and
3. insufficient outlets for creativity.
Parallel verbs:
The Employees were upset that the company...
1. offered low pay,
2. maintained poor working conditions, and
3. provided insufficient outlets for creativity.
Parallel participles:
The company had been creating a unattractive environment for employees...
1. offering low wages,
2. maintaining poor working condition, and
3. providing insufficient outlets for creativity.
Parallel infinitives:
Disgruntled employees want their company...
1. to offer higher wages,
2. to create better working conditions, and
3. to provide more outlets for creativity.
Parallel infinitives - alternate:
Disgruntled employees want their company...
1. to offer higher wages,
2. create better working conditions, and
3. provide more outlets for creativity.
etc, etc,
In each case, each of our list items much make equal sense with the "root phrase" that comes before it.
Ceilidh Erickson
EdM in Mind, Brain, and Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
