All of the following word groups show parallelism except <span><u>smiling at my mother, when I cleaned my room, to ask my parents for a favor.</u>
Parallelism refers to the usage of the same form throughout a sentence or a list of phrases. You can see that A, B, and D all have the same form in all of these examples, whereas in C they vary.</span>
Why was he studying?
When was he studying?
How was he studying?
With who was he studying?
Where was he studying?