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Question

Language Skill - Understanding Parallel Structure

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Read the sentence.

The manager told the clerk to count all the stock on hand, _[blank]_, and to write a report on his findings.

Which phrase would complete the sentence with correct parallel structure?

O check it against invoices

• to check it against invoices

O checking it against invoices

• also check it against invoices

Answer

also check it against invoices

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The sentence is incomplete and requires a phrase that is parallel in structure to the phrase "count all the stock on hand". The phrase "also check it...