Question

Which revision of this sentence creates the best parallel structure?

Changing the bedding, to do the laundry, and cleaning the floors were the responsibility of the hospital volunteers.


Replace the word cleaning with the words to clean.


Replace the words to do with the word doing.


Replace the word cleaning with the word clean.


Replace the word changing with the words to change.

Answer 1

Replace the words to do with the word doing.

Answer 2

In order for parallelism to take place in a sentence, the sentence requires the use of the same grammatical components and structure. In the example provided, the idea starts with a gerund, "Changing the bedding", "cleaning the floors" follows the same pattern, however, the words that need to be replaced are "to do" with doing so that we have three gerunds in parallel form. The first otion is the correct one.