Of the three variants of the underlined portion of the sentence below,
which is the best and why? I'm trying to help my high school junior
improve her grammar skills, but I'm stumped by the problem below.
The correct answer is given as "C." While "C"
seems fine to me, I don't understand why "B" is
deficient. My daughter's workbook notes that "B" is not
parallel; however, I thought that in seeking to determine whether
parallel structure exists in a sentence, one need not pay attention to
items that modify the elements that are equal in placement, importance
and/or function. Thus, regarding choice "B," I don't
think that it matters that "its educational" modifies
"quality," but that "effectiveness" has no
modifier. Thank you for your help.
Many changes occurred while she was president of the college, and they
increased its educational quality as well as effectiveness.
A) college, and they increased its educational quality as well as
effectiveness
B) college; these changes increased its educational quality and
effectiveness
C) college; these changes increased both the educational quality
and effectiveness of the college
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