<p>Question 1:
sentence 1: I drove through the city and into the desert.
sentence 2: I drove through the city and the desert.</p>
<p>Is there any difference between these two sentences?</p>
<p>Question 2:
More perfect in appearance than <em>either word or deed</em>, the candidate soon disappointed his early followers.
(A) either word or deed
(B) either word or in deed
(C) either in word or deed
(D) in either word or deed
(E) in either word or in deed</p>
<p>I got choice D, but I am not very sure. Is choice D the correct answer and what is the difference between D and E?</p>
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<li><p>There is a slight difference between the two sentences. In the first one, you drove through the city and ended up in the middle of the desert. In the second sentence, however, you drove all the way through the desert.</p></li>
<li><p>This question inviles parallelism. Whatever way you choose to form the sentence, the forms must be parallel and uniform. Since the part of the sentence that cannot be changed says "in appearance," the second part must also have an "in" in it. Two ways this can be formed correctly are: A. "in either word or deed," or B. "either in word or in deed." The only one that is among the choices is "in either word or deed," choice D.
E is incorrect because when the "in" is before the "either," you don't need anymore "in"s because the first "in" already applies to both things. Because of this, the second "in" is not needed, and it causes a faulty parallelism.</p></li>
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