Which sentence correctly uses parallel grammatical structure in listing professional duties?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. The instructor enjoys planning engaging lessons, mentoring novice teachers, and evaluating student growth.
- Step 1: Parallelism requires that all coordinate elements in a series share the identical grammatical form. Step 2. All three coordinate objects use parallel gerund phrases: 'planning...', 'mentoring...', and 'evaluating...'. Answer: The instructor enjoys planning engaging lessons, mentoring novice teachers, and evaluating student growth. Why not the others: Mixing infinitives ('to mentor'), abstract nouns ('evaluation'), and bare verbs breaks parallel syntactic balance.
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