Jose A. Carillo
Jose A. Carillocarii

Last week, I presented the first part of this discussion that seeks to rectify some myths about the usage of correlative conjunctions and appositives. I am making it in reply to the contention of a member of Jose Carillo’s English Forum, Mwita Chacha, that this sentence of mine using the correlative conjunction “either…or…” has a serious parallelism flaw: “Your colleague is either kidding you, or he or she is a superwriter from another planet.”

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