parallelism with infinitives (prepositional redundancy)

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<p>Hi all, </p>

<p>Can someone please clarify whether or not a sentence is still grammatically correct if a preposition is repeated between conjunctions? </p>

<p>For example: </p>

<p>Arelia believes that cloth is an art form that will not last long enough either to please or to influence.</p>

<p>Arelia believes that cloth is an art form that will not last long enough either to please or influence. </p>

<p>Are the above still grammatically correct?
Are there any other variances to the above that I should be aware of that demonstrate correct parallelism?</p>

<p>cheers</p>

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<p>Arelia believes that cloth is an art form that will not last long enough either to please or influence.
this is wrong. again, it follows an format of prep+verb, rather, in this case, ‘to please’ is in infinitive from that acts as an adj describing cloth. influence must follow the same format; therefore, ‘to influence’ is needed.
let’s cross ‘either to please or’ out and see what happens.
Aeria believes that cloth is an art form that will not last long enough influence.
see? only certain verbs that require the drop of ‘to’
such as let, see, watch, feel, make, help.</p>

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<p>right okay, thanks for this</p>

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<p>Neither choice is great.</p>

<p>Consider:</p>

<p>Arelia believes that cloth is an art form that will not last long enough to either please or influence the public.</p>

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<p>What about this: </p>

<p>Jack likes to skip, to run and to jump<br>
OR
Jack likes to skip, run and jump. </p>

<p>??</p>

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<p>And @Fogcity but grammatically are the two sentences about arelia correct though in terms of parallelism? One of the sentences was a correct answer in an sat practice paper</p>

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<p>They are both wrong</p>

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