instead前后并列句，不定式要不要省略to

老师您好，为什么这边答案是B，而不是C，instead它不是连接词，感觉直接用动词原形，没有连接词的话，成句是不是有问题？谢谢！

Don’t look for rules to impose on what you write, instead, _____ the selection of topic, audience, and purpose to guide your choices.

A. which allows

B. allow

C. to allow

D. to be allowing

这里省略了并列连词but。allow并不是不定式，而是祈使句的谓语动词。当but连接并列分句，前一个分句为否定句，后一个分句为肯定句时，but常可以省略。以下为剑桥英语语法对此的论述：

ii To keep a child of twelve or thirteen under the impression that nothing nasty ever

happens is not merely dishonest, it is unwise.

Example [ii] is representative of constructions where a positive clause follows a

negative, especially one where the negation combines with only, simply, merely, or just.

In such cases the positive clause is often introduced by but, giving syndetic coordination;

the asyndetic construction without but is also common, however, and readily allows a

comma.

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