Grammar help with "Has not"
I recently got a sentence marked wrong by a proofreader. The sentence is: "Sometimes, you may need to wait a while before trying to open the program again, as this notification appears when the program upgrade has not yet completed or not synchronized with the new settings file."
Proofreader said because there is not verb after the "or," is it grammatically incorrect. My question: isn't this just a style thing? Having two "has not"s does make it clearer and I guess it's perfect parallelism. But isn't it also a redundancy? Doesn't the first "has not" already speak to the second and therefore I am not technically incorrect?
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. " I agree with the proof-reader about the above, but I would prefer t write it as follows. .
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- " I agree with the proof-reader about the above, but I would prefer t write it as follows.
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. . . as this notification appears when the program upgrade has not yet completed or has not synchronized with the new settings file."
I agree with the proof-reader about the above, but I would prefer t write it as follows.
. . . as this notification appears when the program upgrade has not yet completed or not synchronized with the new settings fi
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