TAILIEUCHUNG - Sat - MC Grawhill part 54

Tham khảo tài liệu 'sat - mc grawhill part 54', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 520 McGRAW-HILL S SAT Lesson 3 Parallelism The Law of Parallelism When you compare or list items in a sentence the items should have the same grammatical form. That is if the first item is an infinitive or a gerund or an adjective etc. the other item s should be too. I like pizza. I like to swim. I like swimming. What kind of word is pizza Obviously a noun. But notice that in the sentences above to swim infinitive and swimming gerund are playing the same role as pizza did in the first sentence. So they must be nouns too Wrong She hated to take charge draw at- tention to herself and she hated seeming like a know-it-all. The three items have different forms. The sentence sounds best if they are all gerunds. Right She hated taking charge drawing attention to herself and seeming like a know-it-all. Wrong Believe it or not I like to read more than I like going to parties. The first item is an infinitive but the second is a gerund. Make them the same form. Right Believe it or not I like to read more than I like to go to parties. Also right Believe it or not I like reading more than I like going to parties. Parallel Constructions In all constructions like the following the words or phrases that replace A and B must be parallel. A is like B neither A nor B the more A the less B not A butB A more than B either A or B the better A the better B less A than B prefer A to B both A and B not only A but also B more A than B Infinitives vs. Gerunds Infinitives are verblike phrases like to run to see and to think which usually act as nouns. Gerunds are also verblike words like running seeing and thinking and they also often act as nouns. Usually gerunds and infinitives are interchangeable. But in some situations one is preferable to the other. The gerund often indicates a general class of activity while the infinitive indicates a specific activity. Good Kayaking not to kayak is a healthful sport but can sometimes be dangerous. Good Curtis and Dan want to kayak not kayaking this .

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