SC Help needed

[tpsharma2u]

if you are introducing the content of a different problem, then please make a different thread, with a citation of the original source (as always) as per the forum rules.
thanks.

Hi Ron,
the query is related to this very problem, which is being discussed on this thread..

The OA reads-
The art installation in Central Park, which featured over a hundred men and women dressed in army fatigues and lying on the ground as if they had been killed in battle, represented neither an anti-war nor a pro-military statement, but rather was an attempt to comment creatively on troubled times.

should the underlined portion not be -" but rather an attempt to comment creatively"...

If I remove non-essential parts and read into sentence-
The art installation in Central Park represented neither an anti-war nor a pro-military statement, but rather was an attempt to comment creatively on troubled times.

so it is - XXX represented neither R nor S, but rather T...
so all three R, S and T should be parallel..
But " an anti-war" and "was an attempt.." are not parallel"..
we do not require a VERB again. Parallelism should be Noun vs Noun..

[RonPurewal]

nah, just read the whole structure as "verb1, BUT verb2".

here's another sentence with the same type of structure (but perhaps a different emphasis rhetorically):
I saved neither my photo albums nor my old notebooks, but escaped from the fire unscathed.