Question

Which statement is written correctly?

A) Sighing, Madame Oks patiently told Sabrina that she couldn't run for President of French Club unless she was willing to stay after school each day, advertise for new membership, and raise money for Doctors-Without-Borders. B) Sighing, Madame Oks patiently told Sabrina that she couldn't run for President of French Club unless she was willing to stay after school each day, advertises for new membership, and raise money for Doctors-Without-Borders. C) Sighing, Madame Oks patiently told Sabrina that she couldn't run for President of French Club unless she was willing to stay after school each day, to advertise for new membership, and raise money for Doctors-Without-Borders. D) Sighing, Madame Oks patiently told Sabrina that she couldn't run for President of French Club unless she was willing to stay after school each day, to advertise for new membership, and to raise money for Doctors-Without-Borders.

Answer 1

B is wrong because of the word advertises - it needs to be advertise. C is not correct because of the lack of parallelism. If you have "to stay" and "to advertise" it must say "to raise". According to grammar rules, technically options A and D can both be correct because you can either put "to" before all verbs in the sentence or just after the first one.

Answer 2

The answers is D

D) Sighing, Madame Oks patiently told Sabrina that she couldn't run for President of French Club unless she was willing to stay after school each day, to advertise for new membership, and to raise money for Doctors-Without-Borders.