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A yearly check-up
conducted annually is believed to be beneficial not only for adults but also for teenagers by many doctors.
A. conducted annually is believed to be beneficial not only for
B. conducted annually is believed to be beneficial for
C. is believed to be beneficial for not only
D. is believed to be beneficial for
E. is believed to be beneficial not only for
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
A yearly check-up
conducted annually is believed to be beneficial not only for adults but also for teenagers by many doctors.
A. conducted annually is believed to be beneficial not only for
This answer choice is stylistically flawed. Using both annual and year is redundant.
What helps us identify this question as a redundancy question as well as identify this mistake is the following Stop Sign: annual + yearB. conducted annually is believed to be beneficial for
This answer choice repeats the original mistake: using both yearly and annually is redundant.
What helps us identify this question as a redundancy question as well as identify this mistake is the following Stop Sign: annual + year
In addition, the omission of not only creates a parallelism mistake because of the words but also, which appear after the underlined part.
What helps us identify this mistake is the following Stop Sign: not only - but alsoC. is believed to be beneficial for not only
While this answer choice corrects the original redundancy, it creates a parallelism mistake. Not only is followed by a noun (adults) while but also is followed by a preposition (for).
What helps us identify this mistake is the following Stop Sign: not only - but alsoD. is believed to be beneficial for
While this answer choice corrects the original redundancy, it creates a parallelism mistake because of the words but also, which appear after the underlined part.
What helps us identify this mistake is the following Stop Sign: not only - but alsoE. is believed to be beneficial not only for
CORRECT.