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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Parallelism

Does a cricket sing with its wings and can hear with its legs?
  

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Anonymous Does a cricket sing with its wings and can hear with its legs? To make the clauses parallel you'll need to remove can . CJ

  • Anonymous Does a cricket sing with its wings and can hear with its legs?
  • To make the clauses parallel you'll need to remove can .
  • CJ
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AnonymousDoes a cricket sing with its wings and can hear with its legs?
To make the clauses parallel you'll need to remove can.

CJ
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You could also ask, "Can a cricket sing with its wings and hear with its legs?"

You have choose one auxilliary verb or the other.

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