Question

select the correct answer from each drop - down menu
kayla is reviewing a coworkers report. read this sentence from the report:
journalists must have excellent communication skills, writing skills, and the ability to research.
help kayla give the sentence parallel structure by completing the sentence.
journalists must have excellent communication skills, writing skills, and

Explanation:

Parallel structure in writing requires that items in a list have the same grammatical form. In the original sentence, "communication skills" and "writing skills" are noun - phrase structures. So, the third item should also be a noun - phrase. "Research skills" is a noun - phrase, while "researching" is a gerund (verb - ing form) and "research" is a verb or uncountable noun (not in the right form to match the first two items which are plural countable noun phrases).

Answer:

research skills