Standard English ConventionsHardParallel structure in a list of nouns
Standard English Conventions practice question
The orchard's records list every tree's variety, its date of planting, and ____
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. its rootstock.Correct
- B. what its rootstock is.
- C. it has a rootstock.
- D. the rootstock being listed.
Answer: A. its rootstock.
'Its variety, its date of planting, and its rootstock': parallel nouns.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. what its rootstock is.
- A clause breaks the series of nouns.
- C. it has a rootstock.
- A clause breaks the series.
- D. the rootstock being listed.
- Not parallel.
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