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Subtle Parallelism

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.
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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?
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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?
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