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Parallelism with correlative conjunctions
| Neither a borrower, nor a person who lends
money be. |
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Neither a borrower, nor a lender be. |
| The sale of the land was opposed both by
environmentalists and the tourism lobby. |
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The sale of the land was opposed both by
environmentalists and by the tourism lobby. |
Elements often are not parallel because one of the
correlatives is out of place.
| Solving the problem requires that you both
recognize it and that you do something about it. |
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Solving the problem requires both that
you recognize it and that you do something about it. |
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