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Difficulty: MediumParallel Structure

To reconstruct the medieval banquet, the culinary historian spent months translating old manuscripts, sourcing rare spices, and recreated the cooking methods of the era.

Which choice best maintains a parallel structure in the sentence?

  1. A
    NO CHANGE
  2. recreating the cooking methodsAnswer
  3. C
    the recreation of cooking methods
  4. D
    to recreate the cooking methods

Answer

recreating the cooking methods
The correct answer maintains parallel structure by using the gerund form 'recreating', which matches the grammatical pattern of 'translating' and 'sourcing' in the list of the historian's activities.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the list of activities in the sentence.
The sentence lists three actions the culinary historian performed: translating old manuscripts, sourcing rare spices, and the underlined action.
Recognizing a list of items is the first step to determining if parallel structure is required.
2
Analyze the grammatical structure of the non-underlined items in the list.
The first two items, 'translating old manuscripts' and 'sourcing rare spices', both begin with gerunds ('-ing' verbs acting as nouns/modifiers).
To maintain parallel structure, all items in a list must share the same grammatical form.
3
Select the option that matches this grammatical structure.
The gerund form 'recreating' matches the '-ing' pattern of 'translating' and 'sourcing'.
This completes the parallel series grammatically and logically.

Key Concept

Parallel structure requires that words, phrases, or clauses in a list or comparison share the same grammatical form.
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