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Feeling fatigued and dizzy, having pale skin, an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath are among the standard symptoms of anemia, a condition in which the blood lacks sufficient healthy red blood cells.
A. Feeling fatigued and dizzy, having pale skin, an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath
B. Feeling fatigued, dizzy, having pale skin, an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath
C. A feeling of fatigue and dizziness, pale skin, an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breathing
D. Fatigue, dizziness, pale skin, an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath
E. Fatigue, dizziness, paleness of skin, heartbeat irregularity, and shortness of breath
A. Feeling fatigued and dizzy, having pale skin, an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath
B. Feeling fatigued, dizzy, having pale skin, an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath
C. A feeling of fatigue and dizziness, pale skin, an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breathing
D. Fatigue, dizziness, pale skin, an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath
E. Fatigue, dizziness, paleness of skin, heartbeat irregularity, and shortness of breath
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
Feeling fatigued and dizzy, having pale skin, an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath are among the standard symptoms of anemia, a condition in which the blood lacks sufficient healthy red blood cells.
A. Feeling fatigued and dizzy, having pale skin, an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath
Incorrect.
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect.
What helps you identify this question as a Parallelism question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:
- A list of 3 items or more, separated by commas and and/or before the last item.
In a list of 3 or more items, all the items should be the same part of speech (all nouns, all verbs, or all adjectives).
In this list the first two items are verbs (feeling, having) and the second two are nouns (heartbeat, shortness).
B. Feeling fatigued, dizzy, having pale skin, an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath
Incorrect.
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect.
In this list the items are not the same parts of speech: feeling, having are verbs, dizzy is an adjective and an irregular heartbeat and shortness of breath are nouns.
C. A feeling of fatigue and dizziness, pale skin, an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breathing
Incorrect.
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect.
While this answer choice corrects the Parallelism mistake in the original question, by changing the verb feeling to a noun a feeling and changing the adjective dizzy to a noun dizziness, it creates a new grammatical mistake and is stylistically flawed.
Verb+ing (breathing) can be used as a noun replacement only when there's no actual noun. Since there is a real noun - breath - it should be used.
D. Fatigue, dizziness, pale skin, an irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath
What helps you identify this question as a Parallelism question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:
- A list of 3 items or more, separated by commas and and/or before the last item.
In a list of 3 or more items, all the items should be the same part of speech (all nouns, all verbs, or all adjectives).
This answer choice corrects the Parallelism mistake in the original question by replacing the wordy verb feeling (fatigued) and the adjective dizzy with the nouns Fatigue and dizziness, and by changing the wordy verbal phrase having pale skin with the noun phrase pale skin. The resulting list is comprised of parallel nouns.
E. Fatigue, dizziness, paleness of skin, heartbeat irregularity, and shortness of breath
Incorrect.
This answer choice is stylistically flawed. The phrase paleness of skin is wordy and awkward. The same meaning can be expressed more concisely by simply using an adjective+noun pale skin.
In addition, heartbeat irregularity is non-idiomatic in English.
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