Question

Hi,
I am having a hard time finding the faulty parallelism, I could see it in my other exercises, but not these. Would you be able to help me with these?
Thank you,
Dana

1. Arriving at Lake Powell in a thunderstorm, the campers found it safer to remain in their cars then setting up their tents.

2. To load her toolbox, Anika the Clown gathered hats of different sizes, put in two tubes of face paint, arranged a bundle of extra-long straws, added a bag of colored balloons, and a battery-powered hair dryer.

Answer 1

1. Arriving at Lake Powell in a thunderstorm, the campers found it safer <u>to remain</u> in their cars than <u>setting</u> up their tents.
<b>The underlined words need to be the same -- either both infinitives or both gerunds.</b>

2. To load her toolbox, Anika the Clown gathered hats of different sizes, put in two tubes of face paint, arranged a bundle of extra-long straws, added a bag of colored balloons, and a battery-powered hair dryer.
<b>There's a series in here that is made up of 4 verb phrases and a noun with modifiers. They need to be either all verbs or all nouns.</b>

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Arriving at Lake Powell in a thunderstorms the campers found it safer to remain in their cars that setting up their tents.