Identify the error in the following list of job duties: "Recruited seventeen volunteers, designing of brochures, and spoke to five community groups."
A) The list lacks proper emphatic order.
B) The list lacks details.
C) The list lacks parallel structure.
D) The list uses a complete sentence.
E) The list uses nouns instead of gerunds.

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The error in the list of job duties is a lack of parallel structure. The duties should be presented in a consistent grammatical form, but "Recruited seventeen volunteers" and "spoke to five community groups" are in past tense verb form, while "designing of brochures" is a gerund phrase.

Identify the Error in the Following List of Job Duties