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The sugar maples give us syrup in March, a display of beautiful flowers in spring, and their foliage is spectacular in October.

(A) their foliage is spectacular in October.
(B) spectacularly, their foliage changes color in October.
(C) has spectacular foliage in October.
(D) spectacular foliage in October.
(E) October foliage that is spectacular in orange and red.

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D. This sentence-correction question has a parallelism problem. You know this because the underlined portion is a part of a list of elements joined by a conjunction and not all the elements in the list exhibit the same construction. The third element is expressed as a clause, and the other elements are noun phrases. Because the sentence contains an error, you know Choice (A) is wrong. Choices (B) and (C) don’t change the clause to a phrase. Although Choice (E) is a noun phrase, its construction is unnecessarily wordy: foliage that is spectacular versus spectacular foliage. Choice (E) also introduces new information (the colors orange and red), which alters the original sentence. Choice (D) maintains parallel construction without adding unnecessary words, so it’s the correct answer.
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