Which sentence best uses parallel structure? My sisters are all artistic-Patricia writes, Mary sculpts, and Elizabeth composes. My sisters are all artistic-Patricia writes poetry, Mary sculpts, and Elizabeth composes music. My sisters are all artistic-Patricia is a poet, Mary makes sculptures, and Elizabeth composes music. My sisters are all artistic-Patricia creates poems, Mary creates sculptures, and Elizabeth is a composer.

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Ellen Briggs

4 October, 08:17

Which sentence best uses parallel structure? My sisters are all artistic-Patricia writes, Mary sculpts, and Elizabeth composes. My sisters are all artistic-Patricia writes poetry, Mary sculpts, and Elizabeth composes music. My sisters are all artistic-Patricia is a poet, Mary makes sculptures, and Elizabeth composes music. My sisters are all artistic-Patricia creates poems, Mary creates sculptures, and Elizabeth is a composer.

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Emilio Holloway · Answer 1

Answer: A) My sisters are all artistic-Patricia writes, Mary sculpts, and Elizabeth composes.

Raindrop · Answer 2

My sisters are all artistic-Patricia writes, Mary sculpts, and Elizabeth composes.

Parallel structure is when the items in a list are all written in the same grammatical structure. In the correct answer (A), the grammatical structure of the list is Subject-Verb. Option B is not correct because the first and third items of the list are written Subject-Verb-Direct Object, but the second item is only Subject-Verb. Option C is in correct because the first item says what Patricia is and the last two items say what the girls do. This is also the reason option D is wrong. The first two items in the list tell what the two girls create while the last item says what Elizabeth is.