Washinton Report Source

[san]

Unlike other countries, which receive aid in quarterly installments, aid to Israel since 1982 has been given in a lump sum at the beginning of the fiscal year, leaving the U.S. government to borrow from future revenues.


In same sentence aid in and aid to are used. I am bit confused when should we use aid in and aid to ?

Secondly, when to use just aid ?

Also this sentence uses like wrongly.

Sentence source is - http://www.washington-report.org/html/u ... israel.htm

OG says aid in is perfect. Refer question # 106.

[JonathanSchneider]

In the first usage, the "in" refers more to how they "receive" the aid. In the second, the "to" just indicates where the money goes. Both are correct. They are not parallel, and so they do not need to be in the same form. Be careful with Parallelism: we only need to make parallel that which needs to be parallel - don't force things into the same form when they are not logically connected.

[kylo.gmat]

i see one more problem with the sentence above. "other countries" is being compared to "aid" & i feel this is incorrect.


Thanks!

[san]

I am agree kylo about usage of Unlike.

When to use aid in , aid to and aid.

Still unclear to me.

[JonathanSchneider]

True the word "unlike" requires P-ism, which is broken here ("other ountries" and "aid" are not a logical match).

As for the issue with "aid," that word can be a noun or a verb.

As a noun: We gave aid to them; we gave them aid in quartlerly installments. (Notice that the "to" and the "in" in the previous examples are both okay. What I meant to suggest earlier is that we can have multiple acceptable forms with certain words. "Aid to ..." and "aid in ..." have different meanings here. As a result, we do not need them to be parallel.)

As a verb: We aided them. Notice that this verb requires a direct object ("them," in this case). In other words, it is a transitive verb.