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Sentence Correction - Parallelism

XAT 2013 · Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning · Easy · Sentence Correction

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Read the following sentence and choose the best alternative which should replace the italicized part of the sentence. To be a great manager requires, strong inter-personal skills, the ability to think fast, and demands a can-do attitude.

  1. A.

    requires strong inter-personal skills, the ability to think fast, and demands

  2. B.

    requires strong inter-personal skills, the ability to think fast, and

  3. C.

    requires strong inter-personal skills, demands the ability to think fast, and

  4. D.

    requiring strong inter-personal skill, an ability to think fast, and demands

  5. E.

    demands strong inter-personal skills, an ability to think fast, but with

Answer

B

Explanation

The verb 'requires' governs all items in the parallel list: (1) strong inter-personal skills, (2) the ability to think fast, and (3) a can-do attitude. Repeating 'demands' breaks parallelism and is redundant.

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