BREAKING: Target Test Prep releases Brand New 2026 On Demand GMAT prep course

Redeem

Target Test Prep · GMAT

Choose how you want to prepare

Learn live with an expert or move at your own pace. Every option includes the complete TTP study system.

★★★★★5.0559 reviews
Vote for Target Test Prep, Newsweek Readers’ Choice Awards 2026
NEWSWEEK READERS’ CHOICE 2026

BIG NEWS! Target Test Prep has been nominated, and they’d love your vote!

TTP has worked incredibly hard to build the best test prep experience possible, and winning Newsweek’s 2026 Readers’ Choice Award for Best Test Prep would mean a lot to them. If TTP has helped you, they’d be incredibly grateful for your vote. You can vote once each day through September 9.

Vote for TTP
GMATLiveTeach 7 seats left
Chris Peckover
NEXT LIVE COHORT

Oct 13 to Jan 7, 2027

with Chris Peckover

Schedule
Tue, Thu · 8:00 to 10:00 PM ET
Included
40 live hours + 6 months of GMAT OnDemand
  • Live instruction and real-time questions
  • Class recordings and assigned practice
View class & enroll
Limited cohort · enrollment openTarget Test Prep
EALiveTeach 5 seats left
Logan Thompson
EXECUTIVE ASSESSMENT

Sep 6 to Dec 6, 2026

with Logan Thompson

Schedule
Sun · 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM ET
Included
40 hours of live online classes plus six months of access to the complete TTP EA OnDemand course.
  • 165+ EA Score Guarantee
  • 4,100+ Quant, Verbal, and Integrated Reasoning practice questions
  • 400+ hours of in-depth video lessons
  • 3,000+ step-by-step video solutions
View EA class & enroll
Limited cohort · enrollment openTarget Test Prep
GMATOnDemand Start anytime
SELF-PACED MASTERCLASS

Target Test Prep GMAT OnDemand

Complete access from day one. Study on your schedule.

715+ score guarantee
$0to start then $127/mo
  • Personalized study plan and analytics
  • Thousands of lessons and practice questions
Start free 5-day trial
Read 559 reviewsTarget Test Prep

Compare the format, schedule, and included access before enrolling. Prices and seat counts shown reflect the supplied offer details.

Subtle Parallelism

Expert replies
Post new topic Locked
Previous Topic Next Topic
Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts
Posts: 88
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:20 am
Thanked: 1 times
by Onell » Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:53 am
According to MGMT both the sides of any form of to be verb should be structurally parallel. But in the sentence below I dont get how
its is structurally parallel.
Resident can be man/women....... but how can resident be a culture or part of the culture?Can anyone help me out?

Native American burial sites dating back 5,000 years indicate that the residents of Maine at that time were
part of a widespread culture of Algonquian-speaking people.
Top
Join the discussion
Log in to postLogin with Googleuse password
QUOTE IN REPLY
Source: — Sentence Correction |
User avatar
GMAT Instructor
Posts: 97
Joined: Sun Sep 12, 2010 1:39 amFollowed by: 20 members
Location: Montreal, Canada
Thanked: 22 times

by Isaac@EconomistGMAT » Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:16 pm
I imagine that what is meant by structurally is the construction itself and/or the part of speech used (noun, adjective, clause, etc.) ut this is not clear to me here.

In this case it seems that what is being equated is the 'residents of....' being equated with 'part of ...culture of...people'. Structurally it looks fine (both are nouns + prepositional phrase working as adjectives).

And the sentence makes sense. But I do not know what you mean by structurally here. You can certainly have different parts of speech (eg a noun on one side and an adjective on the other side of the verb to be).

Can you specify a bit more?
Isaac Bettan
Academic Director
Master GMAT
https://econgm.at/EconomistGMAT
[youtube]QBNZczg84tU[/youtube]
Top
Join the discussion
Log in to postLogin with Googleuse password
QUOTE IN REPLY
Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts
Posts: 88
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:20 am
Thanked: 1 times

by Onell » Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:25 pm
Isaac@MasterGMAT wrote:I imagine that what is meant by structurally is the construction itself and/or the part of speech used (noun, adjective, clause, etc.) ut this is not clear to me here.

In this case it seems that what is being equated is the 'residents of....' being equated with 'part of ...culture of...people'. Structurally it looks fine (both are nouns + prepositional phrase working as adjectives).

And the sentence makes sense. But I do not know what you mean by structurally here. You can certainly have different parts of speech (eg a noun on one side and an adjective on the other side of the verb to be).

Can you specify a bit more?
Hi,
Thanks for your reply. Please find the screenshot from MGMT book.
Image
[/img]
Top
Join the discussion
Log in to postLogin with Googleuse password
QUOTE IN REPLY
Post new topic Locked
• Page 1 of 1