The sugar maples give us syrup in March, a display of beautiful flowers in spring, and their foliage is spectacular in October.
(1)their foliage is spectacular in October.
(2)spectacularly, their foliage changes color in October.
(3)has spectacular foliage in October.
(4)spectacular foliage in October.
(5)October foliage that is spectacular in orange and red.
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All answer choices except (4) are either Awkward or Parallelism error.harsh.champ wrote:The sugar maples give us syrup in March, a display of beautiful flowers in spring, and their foliage is spectacular in October.
(1)their foliage is spectacular in October.
(2)spectacularly, their foliage changes color in October.
(3)has spectacular foliage in October.
(4)spectacular foliage in October.
(5)October foliage that is spectacular in orange and red.
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Answer choice (4) is correct
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We need to maintain parallelism here.harsh.champ wrote:The sugar maples give us syrup in March, a display of beautiful flowers in spring, and their foliage is spectacular in October.
(1)their foliage is spectacular in October.
(2)spectacularly, their foliage changes color in October.
(3)has spectacular foliage in October.
(4)spectacular foliage in October.
(5)October foliage that is spectacular in orange and red.
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confused-whether to keep the original option??
The maple gives us syrup (noun) . . . , a display (noun) , and . . . (noun)
(4) maintains this parallelism
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a display of ... (a) spectacular foliage in
Prepositional parallelism correctly maintained.
IMO D
Prepositional parallelism correctly maintained.
IMO D
Brent Hanneson wrote:We need to maintain parallelism here.harsh.champ wrote:The sugar maples give us syrup in March, a display of beautiful flowers in spring, and their foliage is spectacular in October.
(1)their foliage is spectacular in October.
(2)spectacularly, their foliage changes color in October.
(3)has spectacular foliage in October.
(4)spectacular foliage in October.
(5)October foliage that is spectacular in orange and red.
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confused-whether to keep the original option??
The maple gives us syrup (noun) . . . , a display (noun) , and . . . (noun)
(4) maintains this parallelism
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What if the question is "The sugar maples give us a syrup in March, a display of beautiful flowers in spring, and their foliage is spectacular in Octoberbhumika.k.shah wrote:a display of ... (a) spectacular foliage in
Prepositional parallelism correctly maintained.
IMO D
Brent Hanneson wrote:We need to maintain parallelism here.harsh.champ wrote:The sugar maples give us syrup in March, a display of beautiful flowers in spring, and their foliage is spectacular in October.
(1)their foliage is spectacular in October.
(2)spectacularly, their foliage changes color in October.
(3)has spectacular foliage in October.
(4)spectacular foliage in October.
(5)October foliage that is spectacular in orange and red.
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confused-whether to keep the original option??
The maple gives us syrup (noun) . . . , a display (noun) , and . . . (noun)
(4) maintains this parallelism
While option D remains the same.(not "a spectacular foliage")
Would it be still D as the answer?
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