Question

1) Once dry, Ts'ai Lun discovered that he had created a quality writing surface that was relatively easy to make and lightweight.
(2) He took the inner bark of a mulberry tree and bamboo fibers, mixes them with water, and pounded them with a wooden tool.
(3) He then poured this mixture onto a flat piece of coarsely woven cloth and let the water drain through, leaving only the fibers on the cloth.
(4) The person credited with inventing paper is a Chinese man named Ts'ai Lun.

Which sentence(s) contains an error in parallelism?
Responses
A Sentence 1 and 3
B Sentence 1
C Sentence 4
D Sentence 2

Answer 1

Answer:

D sentence 2

Explanation:

he took (past tense)

mixes them (present tense)

pounced then (past tense again).

that does not fit in a statement that simply lists things that happened during the same time frame.

all listed activities have to use the same time form (in this case past tense).