Today, there are myriad ways to communicate with employees: newsletters; email; voice mail; video conferencing; blogs; power luncheons; walking around; grapevine power; of course, and, meetings.
A) power luncheons; walking around; grapevine power; of course, and, meetings.
B) power luncheons; walking around; grapevine power; and, of course, meetings.
C) power luncheons; walking around; and, grapevine power; of course, meetings.
D) power luncheons; and, walking around; grapevine power; of course, meetings.
E) power luncheons; and walking around; grapevine power; and, of course, meetings.

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

This sentence has an error in parallelism. When there are many items discussed, the conjunction (and) must take place before the last item and when the informal polite usages are used (of course) the conjunction falls before them, as it is in the option B (and, of course, meetings) that is correct. Whereas other options all have the conjunction either misplaced or bears conjunctions in irrelevant places. Option B is the correct answer.

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