Parallelism

0 I'm not sure what you mean by parallelism but but surely it should be 02br
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00she not only quit speaking English, but also blah blah 0-

0 Sorry. It should have been: 01blockquote

00 She not only quit speaking English , but also the habits she had picked up in the U.S. 12blockquote

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00So, is it acceptable for a transitive verb to have both a gerund and a noun as its object in the same sentence? 0-

0 I would have thought that put the "quit" on the wrong side of "not only." Surely it should be "she quit not only speaking English but also the habits she acquired ..." Only if there's a second verb would you put "quit" after "not only" -- as in "she not only quit speaking English but began speaking Urdu." 02br
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0 Hi, 01blockquote

00Is it acceptable for a transitive verb to have both a gerund and a noun as its object in the same sentence? 12blockquote

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00Your example is a little complicated because you are using '...not only ...but also...'. I don't think that construction is really what you are asking about, so let's make a simpler example. 02br

0 It has the air of an attempted zeugma, since 'to quit' in the context of 'speaking English' means 'to leave off', whereas 'to quit a habit' has the slightly stronger implication of 'kicking a habit'. 02br
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00So I'd agree with Clive. Awkward; perhaps because it isn't quite pithy enough for the structure. 02br
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0 Yes. It's against the "rule of parallelism" to say that! 02br
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00It's not as bad as this one, though: 02br
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00She left in a big black car and a hurry. 02br
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0 Is 'transitive verb+gerund+noun' as bad as 'transitive verb+gerund+infinitive', such as 'I like playing the guitar and to go hiking'? 0-

0 Hi, 02br
00A. I like eating and books. 02br
00B. I like eating and to read. 02br
00You hear A quite often. It's not a terrible sin at all. 02br
00B sounds very awkward, I think most native speakers would not naturally form a sentence like this. 02br
00Clive 02br
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