Final answer:
The sentence with an error in parallel structure is 'When I wake up, I start eating food, taking a shower, and go to school.' To correct it, each action should be in the same grammatical form. Additionally, different rules apply to comma usage depending on whether you are connecting independent clauses, listing items, or providing additional information in a sentence.
Step-by-step explanation:
The sentence with an error in parallel structure is: 'When I wake up, I start eating food, taking a shower, and go to school.' The activities listed should be in the same grammatical form to maintain parallelism. The correct parallel structure would be: 'When I wake up, I start eating food, taking a shower, and going to school.' The first part of the sentence sets up a pattern of gerunds (eating, taking), but the last part unexpectedly switches to the base form of the verb (go), breaking the pattern.
In terms of the review questions presented:
- 'I finally found my keys, and I got to work just in time.' A comma is needed before the conjunction 'and' as it connects two independent clauses.
- 'Mrs. Contreras threw out her old coffee table and cleaned the carpet.' No comma is necessary as the sentence lists two actions performed by the same subject without connecting two independent clauses.
- 'Taking the elevator to the roof, we hoped we could see the skyline and the bay.' No comma is needed before 'and' because it's not connecting two independent clauses but rather two objects of the verb 'see'.
- 'Though Susan wasn't feeling well, she went to the store anyway and bought ice cream, pizza, and candy.' A comma is needed after 'well' to separate the dependent clause from the main clause, and after 'anyway' for clarity. The series should maintain the oxford comma already presented.
- 'I let my neighbor borrow my phone because she said hers was tapped by the police.' No comma is needed here since the reason 'because she said hers was tapped by the police' is essential to the meaning of the sentence.
Editing for clarity and accuracy is important when using quotations. Ensure that the structure of your sentence remains grammatically sound even when incorporating quotes; alterations to quotations may be necessary to maintain grammatical consistency.