Discussion
Determine whether or not there is an error in the underlined portion of the sentence above. If there is no error, select answer choice "A".
*This question is included in Nova Press: Set D - Faulty Parallelism, question #2
| (A) | war brewing in Europe, the industrial revolution well-established, and a nascent communication age. |
| (B) | ... |
| (C) | ... |
| (D) | ... |
| (E) | ... |
| (F) | ... |
The solution is
Posted: 03/21/2013 16:28
Choice (D) commits a fallacy of burdening a sentence with one word being used twice making such a sentence sound awkward ("began" and "beginning"). If a synonym were used, than everything would feel natural.
Posted: 03/21/2013 18:08
Ben, I agree with you that choice D, though grammatically the correct answer, would feel more natural if it uses a synonym of "beginning".