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The media often hasten to chastise celebrities who have come into sudden and unexpected prominence, whether they be actors, musicians, or some other high-profile vocation.

A. they be actors, musicians, or some other high-profile vocation -> they be vocation - Incorrect

B. Their vocation be acting, music performance, or some other high-profile vocation -> their vocation be high profile vocation - Incorrect

C. They be actors, music, or some other high profile vocation -> celebrities be music - Incorrect

D. Their vocation is that of actor, musician, or otherwise a high-profile one -> Correct; whether celebritie's occupation (vocation) is that of actor, musician or some high profile one

E. They are actors, are musicians, or in some other high-profile vocation -> not parallel - Incorrect

IMO B

Their vocation be acting, music performance, or some other high-profile vocation

Their vocation refers to celebrities work type ..


The media often hasten to chastise celebrities who have come into sudden and unexpected prominence, whether they be actors, musicians, or some other high-profile vocation.

A. they be actors, musicians, or some other high-profile vocation

B. Their vocation be acting, music performance, or some other high-profile vocation

C. They be actors, music, or some other high profile vocation

D. Their vocation is that of actor, musician, or otherwise a high-profile one

E. They are actors, are musicians, or in some other high-profile vocation

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ans:B
a)different kind of nouns are being compared. Actors,musicians can not be parallel with vocation(vocation means a person's employment or occupation..so it can't be actors but can be acting). Acting,music performance can be parallel to vocation. eliminate
b)no error
c)actors..music->parallelism error
d)that of otherwise a high-profile one->wrong..again parallelism error
e)are,are or in-- no parallel

A. they be actors, musicians, or some other high-profile vocation...........lacks parallelism...
actors, musicians....refers to celebrities
some other high-profile vocation- refers to the profession

B. Their vocation be acting, music performance, or some other high-profile vocation.....CORRECT but a little redundant

C. They be actors, music, or some other high profile vocation...........lacks parallelism

D. Their vocation is that of actor, musician, or otherwise a high-profile one...........lacks parallelism

E. They are actors, are musicians, or in some other high-profile vocation...........lacks parallelism

OA:B

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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

The correct answer is (B). The original sentence suffers from faulty parallelism. Each of the three items in the underlined clause should be similar in grammatical construction. While actors and musicians both describe the celebrities themselves, some other high-profile vocation does not. Choice (B) establishes a consistent (parallel) grammatical construction among the three items in the series; each of the three items refers clearly to a vocation.

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