Verb parallelism

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Hi,

I am reading this English for writing reference book. There is a sample essay on an argument essay. Here is one paragraphy and I am not sure if it is okay to have two different verb structure in one sentence.

"...A fox which has gone underground and is pursued by terriers, dug out and shot endures further anguish . Pre season cub-hunting in the autumn, when the hounds are familiarized with fox scent and kill cubs, is especially cruel. "

The first two phrases, one is active voice and one is passive, would be okay to use?
And for the last two, are they both nouns? If they are, should it write" killed cubs" rather than "kill cubs"? What does kill mean in the case?

Thanks

Mr Wordy · Accepted Answer

Both sentences are OK (apart from the missing hyphen in "Pre-season" and some superfluous spaces). In the second sentence, "fox scent" is a noun, and "kill" is a verb with subject "hounds" and object "cubs".

Avangi · Answer

clee62which has gone underground and is pursued by terriers, dug out and shot

Nothing wrong here.

Note that these are all two-word verbs:
has gone
is pursued
is dug [out]
is shot

The "is" appears only once: [He] is pursued, dug, and shot (the "is" distributes to the other verbs)

Where we sometimes get in trouble with this type of parallelism is in distributing the wrong particle, or distributing the right particle to a series of different verb forms.

He is pursued, dig, and shooting

One subject may have several verbs of different forms, as long as each verb form is complete and finite.

I ate an hour ago and am still hungry.
I'm very tired, but will drive you home.
She likes dancing, but would never consider dancing with you.
The man was tazered and still continues to fight.

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