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by krbharat » Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:14 am
All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously inaccessible areas, but they have also been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas.

(A) deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging
(B) deaths and injuring thousands, and serious damage to
(C) deaths, thousands who are injured, as well as seriously damaging
(D) deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to
(E) deaths, thousands are injured, and they do serious damage t
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by thephoenix » Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:39 am
(A) deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging - Parallelism Error

(B) deaths and injuring thousands, and serious damage to - Parallelism Error

(C) deaths, thousands who are injured, as well as seriously damaging - Awkward

(D) deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to - Correct

(E) deaths, thousands are injured, and they do serious damage to - Wordy [/quote]
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by suchoudh » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:39 am
Agree with D.
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by akhpad » Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:14 am
I do agree with D.


All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously inaccessible areas, but they have also been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to the nation's recreational areas.
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by sauras » Sat Apr 10, 2010 2:55 pm
Why not 'B' - "Causing A and B"
Causing hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries, and serious damage to
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by kevincanspain » Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:05 pm
In English something does damage to something else

Also causing A, B and C not causing A and B, and C
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by vid_800 » Mon Sep 12, 2016 10:30 pm
Hi Mitch,

Can you please explain me why the below list are not parallel.

causing hundreds of deaths,
injury to thousands,
and seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas.
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