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by nycknicks11 » Mon May 09, 2011 9:41 pm
Does GMAT follow strict parallelism?

1) For A, the intended parallelism is "a native" and "citizen" two nouns. BUT the second item of the parallel structure has a short adjective in front. Does this break paralellism? This is not an official gmat question.
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by atulmangal » Mon May 09, 2011 10:11 pm
nycknicks11 wrote:Does GMAT follow strict parallelism?

1) For A, the intended parallelism is "a native" and "citizen" two nouns. BUT the second item of the parallel structure has a short adjective in front. Does this break paralellism? This is not an official gmat question.
I believe its correct and there is no violation of parallelism.

As we know adjectives are just extra description of Noun, so it doesn't matter, if you are making two nouns parallel that's fine.

table and golden chair ----> parallel
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by itsmebharat » Tue May 24, 2011 3:37 am
Hi Atul,

I guess you should understand the difference between Native of and Native to.. After looking at all the options, only first one is correct, rest all are wrong.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/native-of-vs ... t1152.html
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by aspirant2011 » Tue May 24, 2011 4:43 am
itsmebharat wrote:Hi Atul,

I guess you should understand the difference between Native of and Native to.. After looking at all the options, only first one is correct, rest all are wrong.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/native-of-vs ... t1152.html
Hi Itsmebharat,

native of is used for people and native to is used for plants and animals.......option A is correct over here
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by atulmangal » Tue May 24, 2011 6:26 am
itsmebharat wrote:Hi Atul,

I guess you should understand the difference between Native of and Native to.. After looking at all the options, only first one is correct, rest all are wrong.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/native-of-vs ... t1152.html
I understand the difference in meaning, the issue discussed here is regarding parallelism, if i stated anything wrong in my above post...kindly clear!!!
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by niksworth » Tue May 24, 2011 7:12 am
A is undoubtedly the best answer.

However, A has an error. It misses the article a before naturalized citizen.

Option A - The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, a native of Germany and naturalized citizen of Switzerland, preferred to describe himself as "a good European".

Correct - The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, a native of Germany and a naturalized citizen of Switzerland, preferred to describe himself as "a good European".
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