<p>IN 1961 Rita Moreno [gained fame] and [won] and academy award [for her portraying] Anita in the film [adaptation of] the groundbreaking Broadway musical West Side Story.</p>
<p>I think D is wrong but don't know how to fix. Thank you.</p>
<p>I think it is C “for her portraying”</p>
<p>I thought it should be “for her portrayal of”</p>
<p>but I don’t know for sure :S</p>
<p>*also I assume the “and” after “won” is actually “an”.</p>
<p>The answer above me is right, it’s a lack of parallelism</p>
<p>Question 1: Members of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company [A. have] once again [B. shown how] the combination of strength and [C. being agile][D. can produce] beautiful movement.
The answer is C, but I cant understand.
Question 2: At the conclusion of the novel The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner recently [A. arrived to] New York, [B. moodily] [C. watches] the blinking green light at the [D. tip of] Long Island.
Why it should be A ?</p>
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<li>Parallelism.</li>
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<p>the sentence should read: “… the combination of strength and agility…”</p>
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<li>Not sure of the name of the error.</li>
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<p>but I think that A should be “arrived in” or “arriving in”
I’ve heard this sentence before, and I think I was told that “arrived in” was correct; however, I find that “arriving in” sounds cleaner (and less like a run-on)</p>
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<li>is just an idiom/collocation error, and it should be “arrived in” (not “arriving in”).</li>
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