69. After the Vietnam war, Bettye Granther, a U.S. Army nurse, continued her efforts on behalf of injured Vietnamese children, providing medical care, helping to reunite estranged families, and the establishment of a fund for the children’s future education.

(A) the establishment of a fund for the children’s future education
(B) the establishing of a fund for the future education of children
(C) establishing a fund for the children’s future education
(D) establishing a fund for the childrens’ future education
(E) the establishment of a fund for the childrens’ future education

Solution:

Parallelism

A and E fail to conserve parallelism in providing…helping…establishment.
B is awkward in “the establishing of a”
D is wrong in using childrens’.
C is the best choice.

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