Exercise 40.3

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VIII. Effective Sentences (Chapters 38-42)

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Exercise 40.3

Correct the faulty parallelism in the following sentences.

This activity contains 10 questions.

We live in a time when people seem afraid to be themselves, when a hard, shiny exterior is preferred to the genuineness of deeply felt emotion.

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Most people prefer to watch others exercise rather than participate because exercise is so difficult and it is so easy to lie on a couch.

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The responsibilities of a stagehand include keeping track of props, changing scenery, and they sometimes help out with special effects.

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Two complaints being investigated by the task force were lack of promotions for women and writing company memos that were not gender inclusive.

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Just a generation ago, people would not have dreamed of eating strawberries in September, nor would corn have been available in May.

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Objectivity is assumed to be fundamental to news reporting, but public relations and advertising personnel are not assumed to be objective.

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The history of television is a history of technology and policy, economics and sociology, and entertainment and news are part of it, too.

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Watching an animal in its natural habitat is the most authentic form of animal-viewing experience, followed by a circus or zoo, showing one televised in its natural habitat, and seeing one featured on a late-night talk show.

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Good therapists will assess a client's general problem fairly early, and provisional goals will be set for the client.

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Minor hassles—losing your keys, the grocery bag rips on the way to the door, you slipped and fell in front of everyone in a new class, finding that you went through the whole afternoon with a big chunk of spinach stuck in your front teeth—may seem unimportant, but the cumulative effect of these minor hassles may be stressful enough to be harmful.

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