Which sentence demonstrates correct parallel structure?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. The candidate promised to lower company taxes
- Step 1: Parallel structure requires corresponding grammatical elements in a list to share the same syntactic form. Step 2. In the correct sentence, all three items are parallel infinitives: 'to lower...', '[to] reform...', '[to] protect...'. Answer: The candidate promised to lower company taxes. Why not the others: The other sentences mix infinitives, gerunds, and noun phrases, disrupting syntactic harmony.
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