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by mankey » Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:37 pm
Dear All

Will appreciate if someone can help me on this:

"polygamy is common for Christians here as well as Muslims"

or

"polygamy is common for Christians here as well as for Muslims"

Which one out of the two is correct? Please explain.

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by GmatKiss » Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:14 pm
mankey wrote:Dear All

Will appreciate if someone can help me on this:

"polygamy is common for Christians here as well as Muslims"

or

"polygamy is common for Christians here as well as for Muslims"

Which one out of the two is correct? Please explain.

Thanks
Mankey
I would prefer the sentence to be,

"Polygmay is common for Christians as well as Muslims here"

Please correct me if am wrong!

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by cans » Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:16 pm
"Polygmay is common for Christians as well as Muslims here"
i will say: "Polygmay is common for Christians as well as for Muslims here"
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by mankey » Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:01 am
Can we please get some reasoning/logic behind answering this? This could be encountered at the time of SC, so better lets clarify it here itself.

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by mehrasa » Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:41 am
first of all, "here" is not in its place before 'as well as'
secondly, to me the sentence 2 makes more sense... i do not have any idea whether we can use prepositional phrase after 'as well as' but regarding parallelism, before and after of "as well as" we need to follow a parallel structure
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by gunjan1208 » Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:02 am
I agree with cans:-->

1- For is expected to follw parallelism.
2- Respects th rules for As well as
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by GmatKiss » Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:15 am
cans wrote:"Polygmay is common for Christians as well as Muslims here"
i will say: "Polygmay is common for Christians as well as for Muslims here"
Thanks Cans, for correcting my mistake :)
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