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by Fractal » Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:20 am
Why is this sentence considered parallel?

He demanded that John go to the reception and wanted Sarah to go to the bar.

I was tempted to insert "that" after "wanted" to make the sentence parallel. but obviously, you must not do that...

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by chufus » Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:30 am
Fractal wrote:Why is this sentence considered parallel?

He demanded that John go to the reception and wanted Sarah to go to the bar.

I was tempted to insert "that" after "wanted" to make the sentence parallel. but obviously, you must not do that...

thx
It's considered parallel because idioms use their correct expression:

"Demanded THAT" & "Wanted TO"

Wanted to Sarah wouldn't make much sense, so it has to be "Wanted SARAH TO", hence its idiomatically correct and parallel !
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by chufus » Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:31 am
Fractal wrote:Why is this sentence considered parallel?

He demanded that John go to the reception and wanted Sarah to go to the bar.

I was tempted to insert "that" after "wanted" to make the sentence parallel. but obviously, you must not do that...

thx
It's considered parallel because idioms use their correct expression:

"Demanded THAT" & "Wanted TO"

Wanted to Sarah wouldn't make much sense, so it has to be "Wanted SARAH TO", hence its idiomatically correct and parallel !
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by mundasingh123 » Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:37 am
Fractal wrote:Why is this sentence considered parallel?

He demanded that John go to the reception and wanted Sarah to go to the bar.

I was tempted to insert "that" after "wanted" to make the sentence parallel. but obviously, you must not do that...

thx
It is parallel because
1st)Meaning issue :The intended meaning is not that He wanted John to want sarah to go ,but he wanted sarh to go
2) parallelism depends on the branches that you start considering parallelism from . The branches need to be similar articles of speech . Both need to be verbs here .
demanded past tense is par. to wanted past tense
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by Jim@Grockit » Sun Aug 21, 2011 8:13 pm
If both John's and Sarah's actions were demanded, you would replace "wanted" with "that".
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