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Zorluk: Çok zorParallel Structure

During the late Renaissance, a physician’s reputation depended not only on successfully treating wealthy patients and maintaining a clean laboratory, but also to publish scholarly treatises in Latin.

Which of the following choices best replaces the underlined portion of the sentence to maintain correct parallel structure?

  1. A
    NO CHANGE
  2. on publishing scholarly treatises in LatinCevap
  3. C
    on publishing scholarly treatises in Latin, this demonstrated their scientific authority
  4. D
    on publishing scholarly treatises in Latin, which made their expertise superior to their colleagues

Cevap

The correct answer is the option that completes the parallel structure with the prepositional phrase starting with 'on' followed by a gerund, ending with 'on publishing scholarly treatises in Latin'.
The correct option correctly uses the preposition 'on' followed by the gerund 'publishing' to match the grammatical structure established in the first part of the correlative conjunction ('depended not only on successfully treating...'). This maintains a parallel structure without introducing any grammatical errors.

Adım Adım Çözüm

1
Analyze the sentence structure and identify the correlative conjunction pair.
The sentence uses the correlative conjunction 'not only... but also' to connect elements.
Correlative conjunctions must link grammatically parallel elements.
2
Identify the grammatical form of the first element linked by 'not only'.
The first element is 'on successfully treating wealthy patients and maintaining a clean laboratory', which consists of the preposition 'on' followed by two gerund phrases.
Understanding the first element's structure defines the required structure for the second parallel element.
3
Determine the correct parallel structure for the second element following 'but also'.
The second element must also begin with the preposition 'on' followed by a gerund phrase, resulting in 'on publishing scholarly treatises in Latin'.
This maintains the parallel prepositional structure ('depended not only on [gerunds]... but also on [gerund]').
4
Evaluate the options to ensure they do not introduce new grammatical errors.
The option containing 'this demonstrated' introduces an incorrect comma splice, while the option containing 'superior to their colleagues' creates an illogical comparison by comparing 'expertise' directly to 'colleagues'. The correct option maintains parallel structure without introducing other errors.
Evaluating all aspects of the options ensures the final choice is grammatically sound and correct.

Anahtar Kavram

Parallel structure requires that coordinate or correlative elements in a sentence share the same grammatical form.
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