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[towerSpider]

My notes tell me they should be parallel for example : just as gills are to fish, so lungs are to humans.

This is understandable but is this one acceptable:

Just as Eating apples were prohibited, so were bananas.

I mean now it is not parallell but it looks fine .

Ps. I can initiate new thread but not reply because there is no such button as quote or reply. I will reply in other threads as soon i sit on computer.

[pradeepkaushal9518]

i dont understand the question

looks parallel but not

"sentences should be grammatically parallel whether it looks parallel or not"

gills are parallel with lungs

[anshumishra]

May be you should explore a bit on Ellipses; Leaving out a word because that exact word shows up elsewhere in the sentence.

Examples :

Bob's shoes are cleaner than Joe's. (Joe's shoes)
I will eat and sleep. (will sleep)


However, An ellipsis can never be used when parallel construction is an issue, as it is in correlative conjunctions.
For more read this blogpost :
https://www.knewton.com/blog/gmat/verbal ... e-ellipsis

Thanks