Ron's advice is that "whenever you use a parallel structure with omitted/elided words, the EXACT omitted word(s) MUST be present, IN PARALLEL STRUCTURE, elsewhere in the sentence. this means in exactly the same form - no alterations, no tense changes, no nothing. " My question then is rega...

Hi, Do you have a link to that? I'd bet that is something I wrote at least 4-5 years ago. At that point, these statements corresponded closely with GMAC's output of comparison sentences. Lately they've come out with several that don't have such close parallelism. (This could very well have been a r...

Which sentence is correct?

As my brother does, I have a baseball card.
As my brother has, I have a baseball card.