Monica worked all day, typing texts, taking printouts and binding the

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Monica was working all day, typing texts, taking printouts and binding the books.

A. Monica was working all day, typing texts, taking printouts and binding the books.

B. Monica was working all day, she typed the texts, took printouts and bound the books.

C. Monica worked all day, typed the texts, took printouts and bound the books.

D. Monica worked all day, typing texts, taking printouts and binding the books.

E. Monica worked all day, typed texts, taking printouts and binding the books.

redskull1 · Answer

Good question.Typing texts,taking printouts & binding books describe how she worked the entire day...

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fitzpratik · Answer

Yes, Even I fell for the parallelism trap

dine5207 · Answer

We can eliminate B,E easily on the basis of parallelism 
D looks promising after all

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SKap13 · Answer

Great question.

I narrowed it down between A and D. A is incorrect because you need the "was" to apply to each verb: "How was she was working?" She WAS typing texts, WAS taking printouts and WAS binding the books.

D shows how we "worked" all day--by typing, taking and binding.

I only wish that they used the Oxford comma after "taking"

tannumunu · Answer

Though I got it correct yet I need more grammatical explanation in this question. Can anyone please help me?

Abhishek009 · Answer

Monica worked all day,  
 typ ing  texts, 
tak ing  printouts and 
bind ing  the books.

Correct Answer must be (D),  the green part is the main issue , and  the listed part defines how she does it (maintaining parallelism structure)

yash312 · Answer

IMO D

A. Monica was working all day, typing texts, taking printouts and binding the books.---Wrong, use of past continous (was working) is wrong , because we are presenting a general fact about past,

B. Monica was working all day, she typed the texts, took printouts and bound the books.---wrong, same error as A + 2 IC are joined by comma than FANBOYS

C. Monica worked all day, typed the texts, took printouts and bound the books.----Wrong, It removes the  How aspect of the work   , it is not representing how monica worked by typing, taking, and binding............it makes all the actions as parallel thereby changing the meaning

D. Monica worked all day, typing texts, taking printouts and binding the books.---correct, represents the HOW aspect of work by typing, taking, and binding

E. Monica worked all day, typed texts, taking printouts and binding the books.---wrong, parallelism error

Drb89 · Answer

Intent of this question: Parallelism vs Modifier

Based on the meaning, activities such as "typing","taking" and "binding" should refer/modify the main verb "work".

By using "working" all the sub-verbs (activities) are made equally important to main verb.

Hence to indicate separation, "worked" has to be used and adverbial modifier has to be used for sub-verbs.

Therefore D

SALAKSHYA · Answer

I think ,  typing, taking and binding  can modify the verb  was working  in the same way as these can  worked

IanStewart · Answer

If you think answer D is wrong here, you'd presumably need to think this sentence is wrong:  I was working all day typing my manuscript  and there's nothing wrong with that sentence. Answers A and D have a slightly different meaning here, but besides the debatable comma in each, they're both perfectly fine sentences as far as I can tell.

Adnani · Answer

Couldn't eliminate "C"???????

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