as likely as

[madhukara77]

Hello Experts -

Could you please help out with below idiom - <as likely as >

1 > Mr X is as likely to fail as Mr b is.
2> Mr X is as likely to fail as to pass.

Is sentence 2 wrong? or both are correct?

could you explain - how to apply parallelism here -

My understanding
1> Parallelism is between "Mr X is <to + verb>" and "Mr Y is <ellipse - to+ verb>" - Both clause
2> Parallelism is between "to pass" and "to fail" - Both "to+ verb"

Thank You
Madhukar Amar

[Sage Pearce-Higgins]

Nice examples. I would say that they're both correct. Sure, the parallelism is between different things, but the meaning seems clear. If we wanted to sharpen up the second example, we could say 'Mr X is as likely to fail as he is to pass.'