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The intern’s day-to-day duties varied considerably, but typically they included tasks like picking up coffee, clean up the office and arranging meetings for executives.

(A) tasks like picking up coffee, clean up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(B) tasks like picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(C) tasks such as picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(D) tasks such as pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives
(E) tasks like pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives
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The intern’s day-to-day duties varied considerably, but typically they included tasks like picking up coffee, clean up the office and arranging meetings for executives.

(A) tasks like picking up coffee, clean up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(B) tasks like picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(C) tasks such as picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(D) tasks such as pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives
(E) tasks like pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives
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"Such as" is used when exemplifying nouns(task here).This eliminates A, B and E.
C is idiomatically correct.
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I am not getting why option D is wrong. I would appreciate if someone could explain that.

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(A) tasks like picking up coffee, clean up the office, and arranging meetings for executives

(B) tasks like picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives

(C) tasks such as picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives

(D) tasks such as pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives

(E) tasks like pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives



First of, we need "such as" to show examples. So, A, B, and E are out.

In C : "such as" is working as an adjective here, and in C it is correctly modifying noun phrases picking up coffee etc.

In D : Adjective "such as" is wrongly modifying verbs "pick, clean, and arrange".
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Hi Experts,

Why option D is wrong ?
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(A) tasks like picking up coffee, clean up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(B) tasks like picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(C) tasks such as picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(D) tasks such as pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives
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Such as...... Brings in examples left with (C) and (D) !!

(C) uses correct parallelism structure, hence Answer must be (C)

The intern’s day-to-day duties varied considerably, but typically they included tasks such as
    picking up coffee,
    cleaning up the office, and
    arranging meetings for executives.
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The intern’s day-to-day duties varied considerably, but typically they included tasks like picking up coffee, clean up the office and arranging meetings for executives.

(A) tasks like picking up coffee, clean up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(B) tasks like picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(C) tasks such as picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(D) tasks such as pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives
(E) tasks like pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives

Such as...... Brings in examples left with (C) and (D) !!

(C) uses correct parallelism structure, hence Answer must be (C)

The intern’s day-to-day duties varied considerably, but typically they included tasks such as
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    cleaning up the office, and
    arranging meetings for executives.
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Hi,

thank you very much for the prompt reply, but I am still a bit confused. I can see the parallelism is present in option D also. why D is incorrect choice ?
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(A) tasks like picking up coffee, clean up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(B) tasks like picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(C) tasks such as picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(D) tasks such as pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives
(E) tasks like pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives
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C. There are two issues with the sentence about the intern’s task in the original version. First, there is the issue of using like instead of such as to introduce a series of examples. Use like to compare two nouns: “Like Dave, Joe performs many duties.”

The second problem with the sentence is that it lacks parallelism. In the list of the intern’s tasks, two of the verbs (picking and arranging) take on the gerund form (meaning they end in -ing) while the third verb, clean, doesn’t. All three tasks in the series have to have the same grammatical construction, meaning clean must be changed to its gerund form, cleaning, for the sentence to be correct. The only sentence that effectively corrects both issues is Choice (C).
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The intern’s day-to-day duties varied considerably, but typically they included tasks like picking up coffee, clean up the office and arranging meetings for executives.

(A) tasks like picking up coffee, clean up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(B) tasks like picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(C) tasks such as picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(D) tasks such as pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives
(E) tasks like pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives

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C. There are two issues with the sentence about the intern’s task in the original version. First, there is the issue of using like instead of such as to introduce a series of examples. Use like to compare two nouns: “Like Dave, Joe performs many duties.”

The second problem with the sentence is that it lacks parallelism. In the list of the intern’s tasks, two of the verbs (picking and arranging) take on the gerund form (meaning they end in -ing) while the third verb, clean, doesn’t. All three tasks in the series have to have the same grammatical construction, meaning clean must be changed to its gerund form, cleaning, for the sentence to be correct. The only sentence that effectively corrects both issues is Choice (C).
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but why option D is wrong. It also maintains parallelism.
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The intern’s day-to-day duties varied considerably, but typically they included tasks like picking up coffee, clean up the office and arranging meetings for executives.

(A) tasks like picking up coffee, clean up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(B) tasks like picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(C) tasks such as picking up coffee, cleaning up the office, and arranging meetings for executives
(D) tasks such as pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives
(E) tasks like pick up coffee, clean up the office, and arrange meetings for executives

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C. There are two issues with the sentence about the intern’s task in the original version. First, there is the issue of using like instead of such as to introduce a series of examples. Use like to compare two nouns: “Like Dave, Joe performs many duties.”

The second problem with the sentence is that it lacks parallelism. In the list of the intern’s tasks, two of the verbs (picking and arranging) take on the gerund form (meaning they end in -ing) while the third verb, clean, doesn’t. All three tasks in the series have to have the same grammatical construction, meaning clean must be changed to its gerund form, cleaning, for the sentence to be correct. The only sentence that effectively corrects both issues is Choice (C).

but why option D is wrong. It also maintains parallelism.
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Might be a bit late but:
"pick up coffee", "... etc in D are not nouns, they are actions/verbs.
When you say 'tasks such as', you are giving a list of tasks, which aren't going to be verbs, they are going to be nouns (or task types). Verb-ing is good for that. "Picking" is a type of task, "pick" is a verb/order and hence can't be here.
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