Answer:
The parts that were changed to make the sentences parallel are bolded below:
1. My son loves video games, musical instruments, and soccer.
2. Jerry like to play with ball, to jump rope, and to run outside.
3. I saw a girl wearing a fancy red dress, high-heeled shoes, and long shiny hair.
4. The president advised the people to stay home, to spend time with family, and to pray for the country.
5. Grandpa usually walked carefully, moved slowly, and sat quietly in the park.
Explanation:
Parallelism refers to the repetition of structures inside a sentence to make it sound better and less confusing. Let's use sentence number 1 to better illustrate this concept. Take a look at the original sentence:
- My son loves video games, musical instruments, and to play soccer.
Even though it is perfectly possible to understand the sentence, we can sense a lack of repetition in the structure. What does the son love? Video games (no verb), musical instruments (no verb), and to play soccer (verb + noun). The last item listed breaks the pattern. To make it less different, so to speak, let's remove the verb and use only the noun:
- My son loves video games, musical instruments, and soccer.
Now, the three items listed sound more similar, more parallel.
Other types of changes can be made depending on the sentence. In sentence 3, for example, the preposition "in" does not work well with the three items listed. That is why we can substitute it for "wearing", which can be used with the three items without a problem.
