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Mr genuine Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

as well as

In each of the following sentences which option is grammatically wrong?


I have to feed the animals as well as "looking/look" after the children.

Smoking is dangerous, as well as "make/making" you smell bad
  

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Freeguy I have to feed the animals as well as "looking/look" after the children I would accept both, though obviously "feed .. look" is more parallel. Freeguy Smoking is dangerous, as well as "make/making" you smell bad "make" is wrong.

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  • Freeguy I have to feed the animals as well as "looking/look" after the children I would accept both, though obviously "feed ..
  • look" is more parallel.
  • Freeguy Smoking is dangerous, as well as "make/making" you smell bad "make" is wrong.
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FreeguyI have to feed the animals as well as "looking/look" after the children
I would accept both, though obviously "feed .. look" is more parallel.
FreeguySmoking is dangerous, as well as "make/making" you smell bad
"make" is wrong.
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FreeguyMake is wrong.Why?
There is no way to link the infinitive "make" to "Smoking is dangerous". It just doesn't follow.
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You accepted "looking" in my first example. It's not parallel with its previous verb.
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FreeguyYou accepted "looking" in my first example. It's not parallel with its previous verb.
That's true; all I can say is that the first is a tolerable lack of parallelism, while the second is not.
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