Question

Which of the following choices best describes the error in this sentence? The man is a scientist with a keen sense of observation and who dedicates long hours in the lab.

a. fragment
b. misplaced modifier
c. uneven parallelism
d. dangling modifier

Answer 1

C. uneven parallelism

Uneven parallelism means that the clauses within your sentence have the same grammatical structure. If you look at the clauses in the sentence "with a keen sense of observation" and "who dedicated long hours in the lab" they do not have the same grammatical structure. Thus the sentence suffers from uneven parallelism.