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<p>749/12</p>

<p>both..and... must be parallel</p>

<p>Here is an Official SAT QOTD I saved: </p>

<p>From its modest beginnings as a series of brief
A<br>
vignettes to its establishment as the
B<br>
longest-running prime-time animated series on</p>

<p>television, The Simpsons transformed the way
C<br>
both the audiences and television programmers
D<br>
view the animated sitcom. No error
E</p>

<p>The error in this sentence occurs at (D), where there is an improper idiom. What follows each part of the “both...and” construction must be grammatically parallel, but here “both” is followed by the article “the” while “and” is followed by the noun “television programmers.”</p>

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<p>both is incorrect because it causes a problem in parallel structure. If you use both, it would need to say "both the audiences and THE television programmers." If both is removed, you can say "transformed the way the audiences and television programmers viewed the sitcom." It's a tricky question.</p>