Bunuel
The iconoclastic fitness guru preaches three main principles: eat five apples per day, exercising before a two‐hour brunch, and that you must burn calories by re‐enacting action movies in your living room.(A) The iconoclastic fitness guru preaches three main principles: eat five apples per day, exercising before a two‐hour brunch, and that you must burn calories by re‐enacting action movies in your living room.
(B) The iconoclastic fitness guru preaches three main principles , eat five apples per day, exercise before a two‐hour brunch, and that you must burn calories by re‐enacting action movies in your living room.
(C) The iconoclastic fitness guru preaches three main principles: eating five apples everyday day, exercising before a two‐hour brunch, and that you must burn calories by re‐enacting action movies in your living room.
(D) The iconoclastic fitness guru preaches three main principles: eat five apples per day, exercise before a two-hour brunch, and burn calories by re-enacting action movies in your living room.
(E) The iconoclastic fitness guru preaches three main principles: eating five apples per day, exercising before a two-hour brunch, and burning calories by re-enacting action movies in your living room.
Breaking down the sentence
- The verb 'preaches' says that the entire statement would be in present tense
- The 'three principles' should be given equal importance
- eat five apples per day, exercising before a two‐hour brunch, and that you must burn calories by re‐enacting action movies in your living room(Parallelism):
'
eat five apples per day' looks fine, I see no errors here
'
exercising before a two‐hour brunch' exercising? why are we using '-ing'?- error spotted
'
and that you must burn calories by re‐enacting action movies in your living room'-
and that you must? burn calories by re-enacting movies looks fine- another error spotted
So we spotted 2 errors, now we'll look for options that help in rectifying these
Option A eliminated
Option B has '
and that you must', so again same problem- eliminate
Option C is using -ing forms and has '
and that you must', eliminate
Option D rectifies all the errors that we found, and we can see parallelism- potential answer
Option E shows parallelism but is using all -ing forms- eliminate
Answer is D