\nHere, what children wanted to eat is compared namely pizza and ice-cream, in two separate clauses. The structure followed in the first clause is 'to+verb(eat) +noun' \nIn this sentence only, ‘The children wanted either to eat ice-cream or to eat pizza’ both the parts connected with ‘either….or’ have the same grammatical structure such as ‘to eat ice-cream’ and ‘to eat pizza’. Hence, this sentence shows parallel construction.
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Pick the sentence that shows parallel construction.
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Embibe Experts Solutions for Chapter: Grammar, Exercise 14: Exercise 14
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