Read the passage and examine the text in bold. Then, answer the question.

I always loved my grandfather's explanations of our seasons, "This is the country of three seasons. From June on to November it lies hot, still, and unbearable, sick with violent and unrelenting storms; then on until April, it is chill, quiet, and drinks its scant rain and scanter snows. From April to the hot season again, it is blossoming, radiant, and a seductress." His months were only approximate, later or earlier the rain-laden wind may drift up the water gate of the Colorado River from the Gulf and bring to us our heat, chill, or radiance. In the desert, we see the land sets its seasons by the rain.

Does the bolded portion contain an error? Choose the correction if one is needed.

radiance, and a seductress

radiant, and seductive

radiating, and a seductress

No correction needed

Respuesta :

C) radiant, and seductive.

Answer: I believe the answer to be indeed the second option, "radiant, and seductive".

Explanation:

When listing things, actions, ideas etc., it's more common to use words belonging to the same category (nouns, adjectives, adverbs and so on). It not only sounds better, but it also seems to make more logical sense as opposed to the breaking of the sentence's rhythm by using a word that belongs to a different class.

Such breaking is precisely what happens if we don't change anything in the sentence "From April to the hot season again, it is blossoming, radiant, and a seductress." The structure of the listing portion is adjective, adjective, noun. If, however, we use the adjective "seductive" instead of the noun "seductress", we have what we call parallelism. The listing sounds better, the words seem to have the same importance and to follow a certain pattern.