TOEFL-PBT:Underlined Section:PARALLEL STRUCTURE

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Underlined Section PARALLEL STRUCTURE

1. Having weekly family talks can be an important means of exploring sensitive family issues, redefining sibling relationships, and to foster new familial bonds.

2. Three goals of the Sierra Club are to encourage environmental conservation, lobbying for environmental issues in Washington, D.C., and develop youth awareness of environmental concerns.

3. Acumen that was political, knowledge of Congress, and the Southern vote were qualities that Lyndon Johnson brought to the national ticket in 1960.

4. Because of their size, dachshunds are less expensive to feed, more easy to train, and more congenial than Great Danes.

5. Electronic bulletin boards are important in the process of reviewing product performance which evaluates how a product operates and recommend whether one should buy it.

Answers: D, B, A, C, D,
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Underlined Section PARALLEL STRUCTURE

6. Certain changes in the method of mailing packeted seeds including packaged, assembling, and mailing have obviated the necessity for rehandling by authorities.

7. There is no doubt that a herd of elephants show much more intelligence in their ordinary life than any of the other gregarious vegetable feeders, such as deer, for, though these follow a leader, post sentinels, and detected every unusual sign or sound, they never combine to attain some end as elephants do.

8. Production of chlorine without the attendant sodium hydroxide is attained by the electrolysis of fused chlorides such as lithium or magnesium and several different chemical processes such as the reaction of sodium chloride and nitric acid.

9. Chopin, in the "Ballade in A flat," while not confining himself to a superficial imitation, contriving to suggest in each stanza the chimes of that which preceded, and sums up the whole in a tremendous peroration.

10. The decrease in game can be easily attributed to the recklessness of early colonists who could be found selecting haunches of venison and leaving the rest of the carcass to their dogs, giving wild geese to their dogs as well, and burning canebreaks thereby they destroyed the habitat of many game animals and birds.

Answers: C, D, C, B, D
 
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