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Grammar

Is this correct

Do you advise me to go to college or that I should get a job after high school?

Is this correct grammer?

Or should it read: Do you advise me to go to college or should I get a job after high school?

Or am I wrong with both of them?
  

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The thing about conjunctions like OR is that the things either side of them have to be of the same "type". In your case, the OR binds together items like this: ---- Do you advise (me to go to college OR that I should get a job after high school) ? or possibly...

— Rommie

  • The thing about conjunctions like OR is that the things either side of them have to be of the same "type".
  • In your case, the OR binds together items like this: ---- Do you advise (me to go to college OR that I should get a job after high school) ?
  • or possibly...
  • ---- Do you advise (me to go to college OR that I should get a job) after high school?
  • Either way, the two parts don't "balance".
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The thing about conjunctions like OR is that the things either side of them have to be of the same "type". In your case, the OR binds together items like this:

---- Do you advise (me to go to college OR that I should get a job after high school) ?

or possibly...

---- Do you advise (me to go to college OR that I should get a job) after high school?

Either wa
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