Identify the sentence that correctly utilizes parallel grammatical structure.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. The internship requires writing daily logs, analyzing laboratory samples, and presenting findings
- Step 1: Parallelism requires that all items in a coordinate series joined by conjunctions maintain identical grammatical form.
- Step 2: Here, all three coordinate objects are gerund phrases: 'writing daily logs', 'analyzing laboratory samples', and 'presenting findings'.
Answer
The internship requires writing daily logs, analyzing laboratory samples, and presenting findings.
Why not the others: 'The internship requires writing daily logs, to analyze laboratory samples, and presenting findings' inappropriately shifts from gerund to infinitive 'to analyze'; 'The internship requires writing daily logs, laboratory sample analysis, and to present findings' mixes a gerund, a noun phrase, and an infinitive; 'The internship requires to write daily logs, analyzing laboratory samples, and presentation of findings' mixes three distinct syntactic structures.
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