Question

you continue to read her letter to the editor and come across the following sentences: \cell phones negatively affect children physically, mentally, and with their academics.\ how do you think the sentence should be correctly written? cell phones negatively affect children physically, mentally, and in their academics. cell phones negatively affect children physically, mentally, and academically. cell phones negatively affect children physically, with their mental health, and academically. cell phones negatively affect children with their physical health, mentally, and academically.

Explanation:

The original sentence has a lack of parallelism. In English grammar, when listing items in a series, they should follow the same grammatical structure. The adverb form is used for "physically" and "mentally", so "academically" (adverb) should be used instead of "with their academics" (prepositional phrase). Also, the other options either have inconsistent prepositions (like "with" in some parts and not in others) or break the parallel adverb structure.

Answer:

Cell phones negatively affect children physically, mentally, and academically.