<p>Some symbols acquire a multitiude of meanings, some widely shared, others personal, some contradictory, conflicted, or ambivalent. No Error</p>
<p>The Answer is "No Error." Can someone give me an explanation on what kind of structure this falls into? I recognized that "some A, others A" structure, but I am not sure why "some contradictory, conflicted, or ambivalent" this is correct. Doesn't this fail the rule of parallelism?</p>
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<p>I have no idea with this. I’ve known the structure like: “Mom is cooking, Dad reading”.
In this sentence, Mom and Dad share the same active sense. But your sentence seems strange : the first phrase is active, the second one is passive. What the helllllllllllllllllllllllll</p>
<p>After you establish a parallel structure, and you are sure that the reader gets it, and you are sure that the rest of your ideas actually are parallel, then you can abbreviate the structure to make the writing tighter and to pick up the pace of ideas. Hango’s example of cooking illustrates that.
The sentence you presented is tricky because the word ‘some’ is used as an adjective modifying ‘symbols’ in the opening clause, but is used as a pronoun (as is ‘others’) in the actual parallel constructions. ‘Some’ in those cases is used to refer to ‘meanings’.
The parallelism only applies to the descriptions of the varied range of ‘meanings’. The first clause is not part of the parallel structure.</p>
<p>I got E for this. If you changed A to a noun to match the parallel structure, there would be no verb. The rest of the sentence is fine because the "widely shared, personal, contradictory, conflicted, and ambivalent, refers to the multitude of meanings.</p>
<p>actually there is simply no mistake-.-</p>
<p>Good luck man.</p>
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<p>If to complete a parallel system, D should be changed into others. (If that’s what you meant.)
But “contradictory, conflicted” and “ambivalent” are not of opposite meanings as “widely shared” and “personal”, thus D is not a correct answer.
And, the last “some” is not part of the “some A, other A”, and “contradictory, conflicted, or ambivalent” is not related to “widely shared” or “personal”, so I guess it’s just to give some additional information… (I know that’s not a clear explanation TAT)</p>