Parallelism

[sherifabdulla]

Hi guys

Can somebody explain to me the difference between the two parallel structures:
Of X and B or Of X and Of B

If there any difference, at all, between the two? Is there a situation where one would be preferred to the other?

An example, which is "better":
I want to retire to a place WHERE I can relax AND WHERE I can fish.
OR
I want to retire to a place WHERE I can relax AND fish.

Thanks!

[RonPurewal]

Both forms are acceptable. You will not have to choose between them. (More generally, you'll never have to choose between 2 correct versions of something!)

"”"” YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE FOR THE GMAT "”"”

In actual writing, there are two main differences.

"- Shades of meaning:
The second "where" carries an implication that we're discussing two completely separate observations/qualities/etc.
E.g.,
I want to live in a city where people care deeply about sports and where street food carts are plentiful.
"”> These requirements clearly have nothing at all to do with each other, so this sentence could be weird without the second "where".

"- Ease of reading:
If the two modifiers are sufficiently long, the sentence WITHOUT the second "where" might be difficult, or even impossible, to understand in a single reading.

These are subleties"”and, more importantly, NOT issues of right/wrong or objectively superior/objectively inferior. So, the GMAT will not test them.