How should the following sentence be revised to ensure parallel structure?

There are many reasons to get dressed up including a night at the symphony, going to a wedding, and a visit to an art museum.

There are many reasons to get dressed up including a night at the symphony, going to a wedding, and going to an art museum.

There are many reasons to get dressed up including a night at the symphony, going to a wedding, and a night at an art museum.

There are many reasons to get dressed up including going to the symphony, going to a wedding, and a visit to an art museum.

There are many reasons to get dressed up including a night at the symphony, an evening at a wedding, and a visit to an art museum.

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Dennis Fernandez

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13 January, 11:20

How should the following sentence be revised to ensure parallel structure?

There are many reasons to get dressed up including a night at the symphony, going to a wedding, and a visit to an art museum.

There are many reasons to get dressed up including a night at the symphony, going to a wedding, and going to an art museum.

There are many reasons to get dressed up including a night at the symphony, going to a wedding, and a night at an art museum.

There are many reasons to get dressed up including going to the symphony, going to a wedding, and a visit to an art museum.

There are many reasons to get dressed up including a night at the symphony, an evening at a wedding, and a visit to an art museum.

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Shyla Nguyen · Answer 1

There are many reasons to get dressed up including a night at the symphony, an evening at a wedding, and a visit to an art museum.

Explanation:

Parallel structure (also called parallelism) is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence.

The given sentence uses only nouns after the participle including: a night, an evening, a visit. That's parallelism.

All the other sentences use noun (s) and gerund (s) going, which means the pattern is not identical, and, therefore, there is no parallelism in those sentences.