Question

Read the following sentence.

Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, an inventor, and liked engineering.

Which of the following choices is a more effective way to write this sentence?
A.
The sentence is correct as it is written.
B.
Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, inventor, and engineer.
C.
Leonardo da Vinci was a person making art, inventing, and liked engineering.
D.
Leonardo da Vinci liked art, inventions, and was an engineer.

Answer 1

Answer:B.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

B.
Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, inventor, and engineer.

The correction for this is all about parallelism.Parallelism is when the same grammatical structure is repeated for effect. When writing a list it is important that all things in the list have the same grammatical structure. In the correct answer all of da Vinci's descriptors are nouns. In the incorrect sentence, "liked engineering" uses a verb.