Question

All of the following word groups show parallelism except __________.

to Washington, DC; to the beach; to my grandmother’s house

by yellow bus, by orange and blue airplane, by turquoise car

little soda cans, impossible peanut bags, uncomfortable seats

I want to go on vacation, my mom and dad, traveling overseas

Answer 1

D). I want to go on vacation, my mom and dad, traveling overseas.

Step-by-step explanation:

Parallelism employs repetition of elements in a sentence that are of identical or similar grammatical form in a sentence that aids to propose a parallel structure to the sentence. It serves to enhance the readability of the sentence and assists to offer an organized form to the ideas so that it becomes easy for the readers to understand.

As per the question, the sentence that does not follow parallelism is displayed through option D as it fails to employ a similar grammatical form of the verb('go' is not parallel to 'traveling') which diminishes the meaning and affects the readability of the sentence. The other options are reflecting a parallel construction. Thus, option D is the correct answer.

Answer 2

All of the following word groups show parallelism except:

I want to go on vacation, my mom and dad, traveling overseas

Parallelism is the use of same components, forms or ideas which are the same or are similar in a sentence. It adds rhythm to the sentences and helps in specifying the ideas more because it involves repetition of ideas or words. The repetition of the words in the lines or parallelism makes an idea or argument more specific and clearer. All the other word groups show some repetition but only the above group of phrases don't.