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Margot prefers the action of a hockey game to watching ice skating performances. Which revision corrects the faulty parallelism in the sentence? Margot doesn’t like watching ice skating performances but hockey games. Margot prefers watching a hockey game to watching ice skating performances. Margot prefers watching active hockey games to the boredom of ice skating performances.

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Margot prefers watching a hockey game to watching ice skating performances.
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The revision that corrects the faulty parallelism in the sentence is: "Margot prefers watching a hockey game to watching ice skating performances."

Option B is correct.

Both verbs should be in the gerund form in order to create parallelism in the sentence.

Parallelism refers to the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically equal; or alike in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter. Parallelism is often referred to as one of the basic principles of grammar and rhetoric

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