"while still making" Question

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<p>Its settlement of the strike demonstrated that the
company can maintain strong labor relations, treat its
employees well, while still making a reasonable profit.</p>

<p>Why is “while still making” wrong?</p>

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<p>i believe “while” is a conjunction used in compound sentences.</p>

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<p>Ahh, thank goodness. Someone else just posted this question and they typed it incorrectly. I was racking my brain trying to figure it out. This one makes much more sense.</p>

<p>This is a parallel structure question. The company does three things:

  1. maintain
  2. treat
  3. still making</p>

<p>These three verbs must be in the same form to be parallel:

  1. maintain
  2. treat
  3. still make</p>

<p>Plus, the compound verbs need to be joined by the coordinating conjunction ‘and,’ not the subordinating conjunction ‘while.’</p>

<p>It should be “Its settlement of the strike demonstrated that the company can maintain strong labor relations, treat its employees well, and still make a reasonable profit.”</p>

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<p>oh parallelism… how did that escape my eyes??!</p>