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by AIM GMAT » Sat Mar 19, 2011 4:40 am
Professional tennis players, similar to professionals in other sports, exhibit different strengths such as serving with speed and accuracy, performing with endurance and run swiftly even late in a match, and defending against tricky drop shots and lobs."

A. performing with endurance and run
B. performing with endurance and running
C. performing with endurance running
D. to perform with endurance and to run
E. to perform with endurance and run

OA B
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by gmat_perfect » Sat Mar 19, 2011 5:50 am
AIM GMAT wrote:Professional tennis players, similar to professionals in other sports, exhibit different strengths such as serving with speed and accuracy, performing with endurance and run swiftly even late in a match, and defending against tricky drop shots and lobs."

A. performing with endurance and run
B. performing with endurance and running
C. performing with endurance running
D. to perform with endurance and to run
E. to perform with endurance and run

OA B
Explicit parallelism:

serving.........., performing.........., and defending.

B is the answer.

A note:

Sometimes we see "Verbgin + modifier" in the list of parallel elements.
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by aspirant2011 » Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:24 am
Professional tennis players, similar to professionals in other sports, exhibit different strengths such as serving with speed and accuracy, performing with endurance and run swiftly even late in a match, and defending against tricky drop shots and lobs."

A. performing with endurance and run ------------> Not parallel
B. performing with endurance and running ----------> Parallelism is maintained
C. performing with endurance running -------------> endurance seems to modify running, which is wrong
D. to perform with endurance and to run -------------> Not parallel with the sentence
E. to perform with endurance and run -------------> Not parallel with the sentence
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