In addition to parallelism issues, the subject and verb are interrupted by lots of words. That is usually a poor idea! Here's how I'd fix it:
Other people believe that after a nuclear war, with resulting radiation and disease, the world wouldn’t be worth living in.
All I know is this sentence has parallelism mistake but I don't know how to fix it!
Other people believe that after a nuclear war, the world, with radiation and where there would be disease, wouldn’t be worth living in.
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How about this one?Thank you sooo much for your help!
Arkansas, the group feels, is the best place to be for several reasons: it is an unlikely target for nuclear attack; it offers plentiful supplies of food and water; a good climate.
Arkansas, the group feels, is the best place to be for several reasons: it is an unlikely target for nuclear attack; it offers plentiful supplies of food and water; a good climate.
After the colon, all three items in the series need to have the same structure. Currently, this is what's there:
~ independent clause
~ independent clause
~ a noun with an article and an adjective
How will you fix it? How will you make sure all three parts of that series match in their structure.
~ independent clause
~ independent clause
~ a noun with an article and an adjective
How will you fix it? How will you make sure all three parts of that series match in their structure.
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