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Parallelism with correlative conjunctions

Neither a borrower, nor a person who lends money be.
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 Neither a borrower, nor a lender be.
The sale of the land was opposed both by environmentalists and the tourism lobby.
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 The sale of the land was opposed both by environmentalists and by the tourism lobby.

Elements often are not parallel because one of the correlatives is out of place.

Solving the problem requires that you both recognize it and that you do something about it.
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 Solving the problem requires both that you recognize it and that you do something about it.

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