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Parallelism the sentence

That commercial was neither accurate, informative, nor was it entertaining.

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The phrases used in the "neither....nor...." structure here are all adjectives ("accurate," "informative," "entertaining"), so "was it" needs to be removed in order to have parallel list structure. The sentence should read, "That commercial was neither accurate, informative, nor entertaining."
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