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Writing > Improving Sentences

Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.

We can either have dessert now, even though we just finished a huge meal, or waiting until later, when we might be hungrier.

(A) waiting
(B) we can wait
(C) wait
(D) can wait
(E) we could wait

答案和解析

答案：C

解析：

Choice (C) is correct. It avoids the lack of parallelism of the original by providing the verb "wait" to parallel the verb "have" in the correlative construction "either…or…"