Parallelism with Infinitive or Gerund?

karthikpandian19 wrote:What is the correct version of this sentence....(Parallelism)

Infinitive parallel or Gerund parallel? Why

I like to run through forests more than I enjoy walking through crowds .

IMO: I like to run through the forests more than to walk though the crowd.

Please correct me if am wrong!

Actually its the other way around.....
I like running through forests more than i enjoy walking through crowds

I am looking out for someone to explain the meaning????

GmatKiss wrote:

karthikpandian19 wrote:What is the correct version of this sentence....(Parallelism)

Infinitive parallel or Gerund parallel? Why

I like to run through forests more than I enjoy walking through crowds .

IMO: I like to run through the forests more than to walk though the crowd.

Please correct me if am wrong!

I think what is confusing everyone here is not necessarily a case of parallelism between gerunds/infinitives.

In general, you should either have gerund and gerund, or infinitive and infinitive. The problem here is you cannot
have infinitive and infinitive because it violates the idiom, enjoy verb-ing. Therefore you must have the following:

I like running through the forest more than I enjoy walking through crowds.

If you get rid of 'enjoy', then you can use either.

I like to run through the forest more I like to walk through crowds.

This sentence sounds a little bit repetitive with the double 'like'. Here is perhaps a much more succinct way:

I like running through the forest more than walking through the crowds.

We do not to repeat 'I like' because it is implied (this is called an ellipsis).

Hope that helps .