Standard English ConventionsHardParallel gerunds in a list
Standard English Conventions practice question
Her duties included answering the phone, filing the post, and ____ the visitors' book.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. keepingCorrect
- B. to keep
- C. she kept
- D. kept
Answer: A. keeping
The list is of gerunds: answering, filing, keeping.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. to keep
- An infinitive breaks the parallel.
- C. she kept
- A clause breaks the parallel.
- D. kept
- A past tense verb breaks the parallel.
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