Stuart Kovinsky wrote:

Awais wrote:As envisioned by researchers, commercial farming of lobsters will enable fisheries to sell the shellfish year-round, taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize its sizes and colors, and to predict sales volume in advance.

(A) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize
(B) taking advantage of off-season demand, to standardize
(C) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardizing
(D) take advantage of off-season demand, standardizing
(E) take advantage of off-season demand, to standardize

Is not E correct answer, to match the parallel structure?

(e) is NOT actually parallel.

If we look at the 4 verbs on the list, we have:

TO sell, take advantage, standardize and TO predict.

The "to" in front of predict destroys the paralellism. To fix the problem, we need to add "to" to every item in the list.

(b) fixes the problem by adding "to" in front of standardize and by changing "take" to "taking" (which is fine, since it's presented as a parenthetical comment modifying the previous item on the list). The list in (b) is:

To sell, to standardize and to predict,

which is parallel.

sdas0112 wrote:Whats wrong with c?

TO sell, taking advantage, standardizing and TO predict.