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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Parallelism

With a consideration of the rules of parallelism (or at least my understanding of them), the following sentence is correct.

I’m writing to follow up on our conversation yesterday and to send you….

However, I often see similar structures with the second to omitted.

For example,

I’m writing to follow up on our conversation yesterday and send you….

Is that careless writing or it’s of to use this structure? And If so can you please explain why?
  

Top answer

Hi, The omission you are describing is fine and common. The additional infinitive markers are usually implied, so you do not have to repeat them in order for your sentence to be correct. The following sentence, for instance, is correct but a little clumsy and formal: I like to read books, to hang out with my friends and to play on my computer.

— Regards

  • Hi, The omission you are describing is fine and common.
  • The additional infinitive markers are usually implied, so you do not have to repeat them in order for your sentence to be correct.
  • The following sentence, for instance, is correct but a little clumsy and formal: I like to read books, to hang out with my friends and to play on my computer.
  • So, in casual speech speakers are likely to avoid that repetition thus: I like to read books, hang out with my friends and play on my computer.
  • Regards
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Hi,
The omission you are describing is fine and common. The additional infinitive markers are usually implied, so

you do not have to repeat them in order for your sentence to be correct.

The following sentence, for instance, is correct but a little clumsy and formal:

I like to read books, to hang out with my friends and to play on my computer.

So, in casual
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