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Drew, you need to let this go. You will not convince anyone here of your arguments. I agree that a lack of parallel (look up the spelling, by the way) structure can be a problem, but not the way you describe. Lack of parallelism is when someone say "I like to play the piano and swimming" or "She...

There are often optional ways of looking at sentence structure, but here are my opinions: 1. She | tried phoning | his home number, | but | he | didn´t answer. Subject | Verb | Direct object / noun phrase | conj. | subject | verb - Could "but he didn´t answer" be a clause?-- YES, it...

Ooh, yes, very nice addition, and it fits well with the ambiguity notion. If a speaker wants to express two thoughts: tense + tense, wherein 'tense' refers to a subject+verb structure, and the subject in the lesser clause is the same as the subject in the main clause, then as a means of...

Hello, mona The real grammarians out there must be busy trying to think of more rules to make our lives miserable. ~laughs~ I don't think I can help you with all of it, but I'll do what I can. and I hope I've understood your question, to begin with. 1. The four prepositions can take a noun...