The Cold War, an apt name for the nervous post-World War II relations between the superpowers, prompted families to build bomb shelters costing thousands of dollars but fortunately were never used.
A) families to build bomb shelters costing thousands of dollars but
B) families to invest in bomb shelters that would cost thousands of dollars and that
C) families to invest thousands of dollars in bomb shelters that
D) the building by families of bomb shelters costing thousands of dollars that
E) the building of bomb shelters by families that cost thousands of dollars but
the reason i eliminated A was because nothing was parallel to "but fortunately were never used" .as "but" is a parallel marker we need a parallel structure across "but"
also in option B :we are making two things parallel when we actually don't need a parallelism between them : bomb shelters that would cost thousands of dollars and that fortunately were never used.
kindly tell me if my logic is correct
thanks and regards
A) families to build bomb shelters costing thousands of dollars but
B) families to invest in bomb shelters that would cost thousands of dollars and that
C) families to invest thousands of dollars in bomb shelters that
D) the building by families of bomb shelters costing thousands of dollars that
E) the building of bomb shelters by families that cost thousands of dollars but
the reason i eliminated A was because nothing was parallel to "but fortunately were never used" .as "but" is a parallel marker we need a parallel structure across "but"
also in option B :we are making two things parallel when we actually don't need a parallelism between them : bomb shelters that would cost thousands of dollars and that fortunately were never used.
kindly tell me if my logic is correct
thanks and regards
