Question

Read the sentence.

For optimal health, eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, , and sleep at least seven hours a night.

Which clause completes the sentence by creating parallelism? A. Regular exercise. B. Exercise regularly. C. Exercising regularly. D. You get regular exercise.

Answer 1

Option B. Exercise regularly best fits the tense used in the statement.

Answer 2

For optimal health, eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, excercise regularly, and sleep at least seven hours at night.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this sentence, a list of actions are enumerated creating paralellism. The grammatical elements that are used to represent actions in English are verbs. So, to coherently complete this list, the component must be headed by a verb in infinitive form. In this case, we have these verbs in infinitive form: eat, excercise and sleep.