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Parallel Construction and Comparison
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Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
In all the big cities, there is a flood of health clubs which claim to decrease stress level and weight is reduced.
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decrease stress level and reduce weight.
💡 Explanation:
Explanation for (1): The sentence bears error of parallelism. All the parts of a sentence should be in similar construction ('decrease' stress level; and weight is 'reduced').
Explanation for (2): This option does not rectify the error of parallelism.
Justification for (3): This option corrects the error of parallel construction as 'decrease' and 'reduce'.
Explanation for (4): This option makes unnecessary change in tense (reduced weight).
Explanation for (5): This option makes unnecessary and incorrect change of infinitive to gerund. 'Claim to decreasing' is incorrect.