Question

read each sentence and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake. if it does, identify the best way to correct or improve the sentence by choosing the appropriate alternative from the answer choices provided. if the underlined portion requires no correction or improvement, choose no improvement or correction is required. three of my favorite activities are drawing, biking, and to go swimming in the lake near my house.
○ biking and to go swimming in the lake near my house.
○ biking, and swimming in the lake near my house.
○ biking and swimming, in the lake near my house.
○ biking, and also swimming in the lake, which is near my house.
○ no improvement or correction is required.

Explanation:

The original sentence has a parallelism error. The first two activities ("drawing", "biking") are gerunds (verb - ing forms), but "to go swimming" is an infinitive. To maintain parallel structure, we need to use a gerund for the third activity. Let's analyze each option:

• Option 1: "biking and to go swimming..." still has the infinitive, so it's incorrect.
• Option 2: "biking, and swimming..." uses gerunds for all three activities, maintaining parallelism. The comma before "and" is also correct for a list of three items.
• Option 3: The comma after "swimming" is incorrect and disrupts the flow.
• Option 4: "and also" is redundant, and the relative clause "which is near my house" is an unnecessary complication.
• Option 5: Since there is a mistake in parallelism, this is incorrect.

Answer:

biking, and swimming in the lake near my house.