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Pokh Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Parallelism

Framed by traitorous colleagues, Alfred Dreyfus was imprisoned for twelve years before exoneration and his freedom.

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The only correction I would make would be to place his before exoneration , because it modifies both that and freedom. Repetition of his is optional. (edited to fix typo that could cause confusion)

— Philip

  • The only correction I would make would be to place his before exoneration , because it modifies both that and freedom.
  • Repetition of his is optional.
  • (edited to fix typo that could cause confusion)
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The only correction I would make would be to place his before exoneration, because it modifies both that and freedom. Repetition of his is optional.

(edited to fix typo that could cause confusion)
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Or you could remove "his" from the sentence entirely.
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how about (since the title is parallelism) .........

Framed by traitorous colleagues, Alfred Dreyfus was imprisoned for twelve years before he was exonerated and freed.
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Yes. Or, ... before being exonerated and freed.

CJ
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