vjsharma25 Wrote:Can a phrase and a clause,combined act as a modifier as is the case in the given question "....found in Phillipines and that resembles...."?I think because of this reason this choice is wrong.Basic parallelism is faulty here around "and".Is my reasoning correct?
you're correct about this.
be careful not to overgeneralize this principle, however. for instance, if you reversed these two constructions to get
that is found in the philippines and resembles...
... then this would actually be a valid construction. in this case, the word "that" is simply excluded from the parallel structure, giving a parallel structure with two verbs ("is found" and "resembles").
in this case, though, you're correct: the second part of this parallel structure is definitely a whole clause, and so nothing in the first part can be legitimately parallel to it.