Question

Shelia E. is a singer and plays the drums. Which error is made in the above sentence? A. coordinating excessively B. lacking parallelism C. using an incorrect conjunction D. linking coordinate ideas incorrectly

the answer is B

Answer 1

B.

Step-by-step explanation:

If you use nouns in both cases, you will have a revised sentence with parallelism. "Shelia E. is a singer and drum player."

Answer 2

B. lacking parallelism

Step-by-step explanation:

The original sentence contains a predicate nominative (singer) and an action verb (plays), which shows lack of parallelism.

The best way to fix the error would be to use a parallel structure, which is the repetition of a certain grammatical form within a sentence:

"Shelia E. sings and plays the drums."

Now the sentence uses two action verbs sings and plays in the present tense, and this is an example of parallelism.