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.
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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.
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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Migraines are often triggered by red wine, chocolate, aged cheese, and by cured meats.
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These terrible headaches can also be triggered by certain medicines and when you eat certain food additives.
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Migraines are three times more common in women than men have them.
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Women’s migraines are often hormonal, related to the fluctuation of both estrogen and of progesterone during their menstrual cycles.
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Birth control pills or taking estrogen replacement therapy can make hormonal migraines much worse.
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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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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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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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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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