You're dealing with parallel construction here -- or actually, one sentence has parallel construction, and the other doesn't!
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_parallel.html
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/parallelism.htm
http://www.myenglishteacher.net/parallelism.html
Let us know what you think.
Which sentence is correct?why
I eat cake, carrots, pizza, and drink soda.
I drink soda and eat cake, carrots, and pizza.
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