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Difficulty: MediumParallel Structure

Complete the sentence to maintain parallel structure by writing the correct form of the verb 'renovate' in the blank.

Answer:The local council resolved not only to build a new public park but also 【to renovate】 the existing community center.

Answer

to renovate
The correct answer is 'to renovate' because it maintains a parallel infinitive structure with 'to build' across the correlative conjunction 'not only... but also'.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the grammatical structure of the phrase following the first part of the correlative conjunction 'not only'.
The phrase 'to build' is an infinitive verb.
Correlative conjunctions require parallel grammatical structures on both sides of the conjunction.
2
Select the form of 'renovate' that matches the infinitive structure following 'but also'.
The parallel form is 'to renovate'.
Since the first element is the full infinitive 'to build', the second element must also be the full infinitive 'to renovate' to maintain parallelism.

Key Concept

Parallelism with correlative conjunctions requires that the grammatical structure following 'not only' matches the structure following 'but also'.
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