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What error in parallelism is made in the following sentence?

Not only vacuuming, but the family wants to dust and straighten up the whole house.

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As you can see, the error in parallelism in this sentence is the use of the verbs. The first verb is in the -ing form. Supposed to be, the next verbs should also be in the same verb. But what happens in the next verb is that it uses the to + base form of the verb form. Hope this answers your question.
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