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Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:52 pm    Post subject: parallelism Reply with quote

I've read this sentence in a book.
"She left her gloves either at the library or the florist's."
But it seems ungrammatical because it is against parallelism.
"She left her gloves either at the library or at the florist's." seems right.
What's your opinion?
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree. You could also say:

She left her gloves at either the library or the florist's.
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