It is recommended by dentists to floss, brush, and use mouthwash twice

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It is recommended by dentists to floss, brush, and use mouthwash twice daily .

A. It is recommended by dentists to floss, brush, and use mouthwash twice daily

B. Dentists recommend flossing, brushing, and to use mouthwash twice daily

C. Flossing, brushing, and using mouthwash is recommended by dentists twice daily.

D. It is recommended by dentists that one floss, brush, and use mouthwash two times a day

E. Dentists recommends that one floss, brush, and use mouthwash twice daily

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divyadna · Answer

It is recommended by dentists to floss, brush, and use mouthwash twice daily.

A. It is recommended by dentists to floss, brush, and use mouthwash twice daily. CORRECT. This option maintains parallelism i.e. TO 1. Floss
 2. Brush
 3. use mouthwash

B. Dentists recommend flossing, brushing, and to use mouthwash twice daily. INCORRECT.
Options are not parallel i.e. flossing, brushing, and use mouthwash.

C. Flossing, brushing, and using mouthwash is recommended by dentists twice daily. INCORRECT. This option changes the meaning. It suggests that dentists give recommendation twice daily!

D. It is recommended by dentists that one floss, brush, and use mouthwash two times a day. INCORRECT.

E. Dentists recommends that one floss, brush, and use mouthwash twice daily. INCORRECT
Subject: Dentists (plural), recommends (singular). SV disagreement

mialanknox · Answer

D. It is recommended by dentists that one floss, brush, and use mouthwash two times a day - Here, we need to carefully look and we will find both grammar and meaning errors, both of which must be used to eliminate this option.

The grammar decision maker is - 
 Parallelism - If "one" is the stem then one floss, one brush, and one use mouthwash is correct as per rule but if we try to dig deeper, we will see there are  2 meanings  for this language (a) one (a person) floss, brush, and use mouthwash - this conveys the meaning correctly, (b) one (1) floss, (1) brush, (1) use mouthwash - this meaning seems ridiculous when (1) use mouthwash comes into the picture but (1) floss and (1) brush could seem to fit if (1) use mouthwash wasn't there. Given, there is some meaning loss, and when compared with Option A, this option doesn't seem to be the best version.

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ak232323 · Answer

Can someone please explain why D is wrong, I choose A because felt D was awkward construction

Bunuel · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

It is recommended by dentists to floss, brush, and use mouthwash twice daily .

A. It is recommended by dentists to floss, brush, and use mouthwash twice daily

The three items in this list parallel each other as they're all verbs of the same type ( floss, brush, use ).

What helps us 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 .

B. Dentists recommend flossing, brushing, and to use mouthwash twice daily

This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. In a list, an unconjugated verb must be grouped with unconjugated verbs of the same type. In this answer choice, two verbs of the Verb+ing form ( flossing and brushing ) are grouped with a verb of the To verb form ( to use ).

What helps us 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.

C. Flossing, brushing, and using mouthwash is recommended by dentists twice daily.

This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The plural subject  Flossing, brushing and using mouthwash  doesn't agree with the singular verb  is .

What helps identify this question as a Subject Verb Agreement mistake is the following Stop Sign:

A plural subject built of singular nouns connected by and

In addition, this answer choice changes the meaning of the original sentence. The phrase  twice daily  is used in the original sentence to describe the three actions. In this answer choice,  twice daily  suggests that the dentists make the recommendation twice every day.

D. It is recommended by dentists that one floss, brush, and use mouthwash two times a day

Although this answer choice is grammatically correct, it is stylistically flawed - redundant. The phrase  two times a day  is awkward and wordy and can (and thus should) be replaced with the more concise  twice daily .

E. Dentists recommends that one floss, brush, and use mouthwash twice daily

This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The plural subject  Dentists  does not agree with the singular verb  recommends .

Anjali1109 · Answer

Isn't the word "one" a third person word? In option D shouldn't it be one flosses, brushes and uses mouth wash?

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