Question

You continue to read her letter to the editor and come across the following sentences:

“Cell phones negatively affect children physically, mentally, and with their academics.”

How do you think the sentence should be correctly written?
Question 5 options:

Cell phones negatively affect children physically, mentally, and in their academics.


Cell phones negatively affect children with their physical health, mentally, and academically.


Cell phones negatively affect children physically, mentally, and academically.


Cell phones negatively affect children physically, with their mental health, and academically.

Answer 1

Correct choice:
Cell phones negatively affect children physically, mentally, and academically.

Explanation: This version uses parallel adverbs (physically, mentally, academically), so the three items are grammatically balanced. The other choices break parallel structure.