iongmat wrote:Thanks can you then please see how OG 13 Question #26 is correct.
Tropical bats play important roles in the rain forest ecosystem, aiding in the dispersal of cashew, date, and fig seeds; pollinating banana, breadfruit, and mango trees; and indirectly help produce tequila by pollinating agave plants.
A. pollinating banana, breadfruit, and mango trees; and indirectly help produce
B. pollinating banana, breadfruit, and mango trees; and indirectly helping to produce
C. pollinating banana, breadfruit, and mango trees; and they indirectly help to produce
D. they pollinate banana, breadfruit, and mango trees; and indirectly help producing
E. they pollinate banana, breadfruit, and mango trees; indirectly helping the producing of
Here, a LIST of actions is attributed to the bats:
AIDING in the dispersal of cashew, date, and fig seeds
POLLINATING banana, breadfruit, and mango trees
HELPING to produce tequila.
The first two entries contain COMMAS.
When entries in a list contain commas, semi-colons may be used to SEPARATE the items in the list.
Note that this usage of the semi-colon is not being tested here.
Every answer choice employs semi-colons to separate the actions.
The primary issue here is PARALLELISM.
Only in
B are the three actions parallel (
aiding, pollinating, helping).
The correct answer is
B.
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