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Which option best revises this sentence so that it uses parallel structure?
High school students should be required to do community
service in order to graduate because it helps them build
social awareness and helps them take a greater interest in
their communities, as well as gaining necessary job skills.
A. High school students should be required to do community service
in order to graduate because it helps them to build social
awareness, taking a greater interest in their communities, and to
gain necessary job skills.
B. High school students should be required to do community service
in order to graduate because it helps them by building
social
awareness and to take a greater interest in their communities, as
well as gain necessary job skills
C. High school students should be required to do community service
in order to graduate because it helps them by
building social
awareness, taking a greater interest in their communities, and lets
them gain necessary job skills.
D. High school students should be required to do community service
in order to graduate because it helps them
build social awareness
.



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In the given sentence, the aim is to revise it using parallel structure to maintain consistency in the structure of the list of actions that community service helps high school students with.

Option A is the best choice for revising the sentence to use parallel structure. Here's how it achieves this:

1. "it helps them to build social awareness" - This part follows the structure of "helps them to" + verb, maintaining parallelism.
2. "taking a greater interest in their communities" - This part also follows the structure of verb + ing, maintaining parallelism.
3. "and to gain necessary job skills" - This part follows the structure of "and to" + verb, maintaining parallelism.

Therefore, by using consistent structures in the list ("to build," "taking," "to gain"), option A achieves parallel structure in the sentence.

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