Identify the error part in the sentence: Paridhi knew she still had to buy the groceries (a) / pick up dry-cleaning (b) / and prepare the presentation for the next day's meeting. (c) / No error. (d)
A.Paridhi knew she still had to buy the groceries
B.pick up dry-cleaning✓ Correct
C.and prepare the presentation for the next day's meeting.
D.No error.
Explanation
The error lies in part (b). For parallel structure in a list, the items should be in the same grammatical form. Part (a) uses 'buy the groceries' (with article), so part (b) should similarly use an article: 'pick up the dry-cleaning'. The omission of 'the' breaks parallelism in the listed actions.
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