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Which sentence contains correct parallel structure?

He wanted three things out of the class: to learn a new skill, to make new friends, and to develop a different mindset.


He wanted three things out of the class: to learn a new skill, making new friends, and developing a different mindset.


He wanted three things out of the class: learning a new skill, to make new friends, and to develop a different mindset.


He wanted three things out of the class: learning a new skill, making new friends, and to develop a different mindset.

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He wanted three things out of the class: to learn a new skill, to make new friends, and to develop a different mindset

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Answer:

He wanted three things out of the class: to learn a new skill, to make new friends, and to develop a different mindset.

Step-by-step explanation:

Three infinitives (to learn, to make, to develop) explain the object three things; that's parallelism, i.e. use of identical grammatical construction.

The other options use both gerund(s) and infinitive(s). Using different constructions cannot create parallelism; that's why those sentences do not contain correct parallel structure.

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