Which sentence correctly uses parallel structure?

1.the boss wants to know who can take the late shift tonight, open tomorrow 2.morning, and who can work on the holiday.
3.the boss wants to know who wants the late shift tonight, who can open tomorrow morning, and if you will work on the holiday.
4.the boss wants to know who can take the late shift tonight, who can open tomorrow morning, and who can work on the holiday.

The correct answer is 4.

A parallel structure is a repetition of chosen grammatical form within a sentence. It shows that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. The usual way to join parallel structures is with the use of coordinating conjunctions such as 'and' or 'or'.

In the sentence number 4, the parallel structure is apparent by the use of the relative pronoun who that is repeated three times. This repetition makes the sentence easy to understand and it's grammatically correct. In a parallel structure, words should match not only in structure but also in tense.

4.The boss wants to know who can take the late shift tonight, who can open tomorrow morning, and who can work on the holiday. This is the correct option.

Parallel structure is applied when the same structure is used. The underlined clauses are the structure used in this way.   There are three thing the boss wants to know and these three things have got the same syntactic pattern, therefore the verb " to know" is followed by " who can " three times.

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as gilgamesh grows he has to face many challenges that put his heroism to task. the courage he displays along the way, prove that he's ready to live up to the godly qualities brought upon him. at one point he has to overcome a wild beast by the name of hubamba "whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death", as the text reads. the actions taken by gilgamesh, beating the beast with the use of his super-human force, examplify why he shoud be thought of as an epic hero.

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