What,if anything,is wrong with the following sentence?

Question

What,if anything,is wrong with the following sentence?

Do you advise me to go to college or
that I should get a job after high
school.

1.PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED SENTENCE
2.MISPLACED PARTS
3.LACKS PARALLEL PARTS
4.RUN-ON

I AM THINKING ITS NUMBER (3)LACKS PARALLEL PARTS.

AM I CORRECT?

Thank you for using the Jiskha Homework Help Forum. Yes, for a parallel construction, because the first part used an infinitive "to go" after or it should read "or to get, etc."

Answer 1

Yes, you are correct. The sentence lacks parallel parts. In the sentence, the first option is "to go to college" which uses an infinitive verb form, while the second option is "that I should get a job after high school" which uses a different grammatical structure. In order to make the sentence parallel, you could rephrase it as "Do you advise me to go to college or to get a job after high school?" This way, both options use the same structure and maintain parallelism.