All over the world,
80 percent of the people use a computer, 60 percent access the internet and 40 percent are having a computer at home.
Quote:
A. 80 percent of the people
use a computer, 60 percent
access the internet and 40 percent
are havinguse...access...have...should be the parallel structure here.
ELIMINATEDQuote:
B. 80 percent of the people
use computers, 60 percent of the people
access the internet and 40 percent of the people
are havingsame parallelism error as in option A.
ELIMINATEDQuote:
C. 80 percent of the people
use computer, 60 percent access the internet and 40 percent have
This is a little tricky to decide. Between options C and E, the only difference is "use computer" and "use a computer". Now if we see the non underlined part at the end, it says "a computer at home". So the start of the sentence should also mention "a computer". You can't complete a sentence by starting with "computer" and then using "a computer". So
ELIMINATEDQuote:
D. 80 percent of the people use a computer, 60 percent
of them access the internet and 40 percent have
of them...is confusing here. If 60 percent of them can access the internet then who are the 40 percent people? Are they from overall population or from 80 percent of the people using a computer? If "of them" is mentioned here then there should some clear mention in "40 percent have". This can also be a parallel error.
ELIMINATEDQuote:
E. 80 percent of the people
use a computer, 60 percent
access the internet and 40 percent
haveThis is the best choice among the options which holds all possible grammatical rules.
OPTION:
E