While on vacation, I often relax by reading one of my favorite books, go to the movies, or swimming in the pool. Which revision corrects the parallel structure error

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Allyson Church

21 July, 10:06

While on vacation, I often relax by reading one of my favorite books, go to the movies, or swimming in the pool. Which revision corrects the parallel structure error

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Steven Bridges · Answer 1

While on vacation, I often relax by reading one of my favorite books, going to the movies, or swimming in the pool.

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Andrew Cannon · Answer 2

While on vacation, I often relax by reading one of my favorite books, going to the movies, or swimming in the pool.

Parallel structure requires the items of a list to be grammatically similar and balanced. In the original sentence two of the actions were written in the gerund form while one of the actions was not. By adding / ing / to go, we easily create a parallel structure for this list of things the speaker does while on vacation.