Correcting Errors in Parallelism

Each of the following sentences uses faulty parallel construction. Identify the answer choice that best corrects the error.

For help with this exercise, see Chapter 23.

example

What people who suffer from chronic medical problems need most from family, friends, and those they work with are compassion and support.

a. What people who suffer from chronic medical problems need most from family, friends, and coworkers are compassion and support.

b. What people who suffer from chronic medical problems need most from those they are related to, friends, and those they work with are compassion and support.

c. What people who suffer from chronic medical problems need most from family, those they are friends with, and those they work with are compassion and support.

  1. Question

    A migraine is an intense headache characterized by pulsing pain, nausea, dizziness, double vision, and by being sensitive to light and sound.

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    Correcting Errors in Parallelism - Each of the following sentences uses faulty parallel construction. Identify the answer choice that best corrects the error.: A migraine is an intense headache characterized by pulsing pain, nausea, dizziness, double vision, and by being sensitive to light and sound.
  2. Question

    Migraines are often triggered by red wine, chocolate, aged cheese, and by cured meats.

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    Correcting Errors in Parallelism - Each of the following sentences uses faulty parallel construction. Identify the answer choice that best corrects the error.: Migraines are often triggered by red wine, chocolate, aged cheese, and by cured meats.
  3. Question

    These terrible headaches can also be triggered by certain medicines and when you eat certain food additives.

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    Correcting Errors in Parallelism - Each of the following sentences uses faulty parallel construction. Identify the answer choice that best corrects the error.: These terrible headaches can also be triggered by certain medicines and when you eat certain food additives.
  4. Question

    Migraines are three times more common in women than men have them.

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    Correcting Errors in Parallelism - Each of the following sentences uses faulty parallel construction. Identify the answer choice that best corrects the error.: Migraines are three times more common in women than men have them.
  5. Question

    Women’s migraines are often hormonal, related to the fluctuation of both estrogen and of progesterone during their menstrual cycles.

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    Correcting Errors in Parallelism - Each of the following sentences uses faulty parallel construction. Identify the answer choice that best corrects the error.: Women’s migraines are often hormonal, related to the fluctuation of both estrogen and of progesterone during their menstrual cycles.
  6. Question

    Birth control pills or taking estrogen replacement therapy can make hormonal migraines much worse.

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    Correcting Errors in Parallelism - Each of the following sentences uses faulty parallel construction. Identify the answer choice that best corrects the error.: Birth control pills or taking estrogen replacement therapy can make hormonal migraines much worse.
  7. Question

    Throughout history, there have been many failed remedies for migraines, such as purging, bleeding, encircling the head with a hangman’s noose, and to drill a hole in the skull.

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    Correcting Errors in Parallelism - Each of the following sentences uses faulty parallel construction. Identify the answer choice that best corrects the error.: Throughout history, there have been many failed remedies for migraines, such as purging, bleeding, encircling the head with a hangman’s noose, and to drill a hole in the skull.
  8. Question

    In a famous essay entitled “In Bed,” the writer Joan Didion argues that people with migraines not only suffer from the headaches themselves but also the common belief that they are somehow causing their own sickness.

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    Correcting Errors in Parallelism - Each of the following sentences uses faulty parallel construction. Identify the answer choice that best corrects the error.: In a famous essay entitled “In Bed,” the writer Joan Didion argues that people with migraines not only suffer from the headaches themselves but also the common belief that they are somehow causing their own sickness.
  9. Question

    Despite what some people think, migraines are caused neither by having a bad attitude nor because you have a certain personality trait.

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    Correcting Errors in Parallelism - Each of the following sentences uses faulty parallel construction. Identify the answer choice that best corrects the error.: Despite what some people think, migraines are caused neither by having a bad attitude nor because you have a certain personality trait.
  10. Question

    An international team of scientists has not only isolated the gene that causes one severe type of migraine, but also they expect to find genes for more common forms.

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    Correcting Errors in Parallelism - Each of the following sentences uses faulty parallel construction. Identify the answer choice that best corrects the error.: An international team of scientists has not only isolated the gene that causes one severe type of migraine, but also they expect to find genes for more common forms.