Question

Read the sentence. Philadelphia has many historic buildings, beautiful parks, and is home to many excellent restaurants.

Which revision corrects the faulty parallelism?


Philadelphia is a city with many historic buildings and beautiful parks as well as being home to excellent restaurants.


Philadelphia has many historic buildings, beautiful parks, and excellent restaurants.


Philadelphia is home to many historic buildings, beautiful parks, and has many excellent restaurants.


Philadelphia, not only home to many excellent restaurants, but it also has historic buildings and beautiful parks.

Answer 1

The answer is B.
Philadelphia has many historic buildings, beautiful parks, and excellent restaurants.

Answer 2

Your answer is B. For parallelism to be correct in a coordinated phrase, all the phrases linked must belong to the same category. In B, "Philadelphia has many historic buildings, beautiful parks, and excellent restaurants"; the conjuction "and" links NPs: many historic buildings, beautiful parks and excellent restaurants. Each of these NPs is modified by an AdjP (adjetival phrase) making all the noun phrases to weitgh the same.