<p>From its modest beginnings as a series of brief
A<br>
vignettes to its establishment as the
B<br>
longest-running prime-time animated series on </p>
<p>television, The Simpsons transformed the way
C<br>
both the audiences and television programmers
D<br>
view the animated sitcom. No error
E </p>
<p>The answer is D, but I don't understand Collegeboard's reasoning. Can someone else help? Thanks.</p>
<p>yeah me neither dude and i can usually beast this section. i think if the “the” was either taken out, or added to the beginnings of both the audiences and programmers, it wud be ok</p>
<p>I believe that adding a “the” in front “television programmers” would make the sentence more parallel in construction…thus the PICKY error…but an error, nonetheless.</p>
<p>Got this, the thing is that you have to descrisbe both the audience and television programmers the same way. You can say The Simpsons transformed the way
both the audiences and the television programmers view the animated sitcom. You could also say, The Simpsons transformed the way both audiences and television programmers view the animated sitcom. The point is that you cant use “the” in describing one noun and then not use it on the other noun.</p>
<p>when you use the word ‘both’ you cant have ‘the’ in front of either subjects. its a idiom issue</p>
<p>^ yeah you can…as long as both subjects have the “the” in front.
its parallel construction</p>