What is wrong with the following sentence? "To waste time and missing deadlines are bad habits."
A) Similar ideas are not parallel.
B) It contains a dangling modifier.
C) It contains a split infinitive.
D) It contains a camouflaged verb.
E) Nothing-it is grammatically correct as written.

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A)You can create parallelism by repeating the pattern in words,phrases,clauses,or entire sentences.To make the example parallel,it should say,"Wasting time and missing deadlines are bad habits." Then wasting and missing are both ending the same.A dangling modifier is a word or phrase that modifies a word not clearly stated in the sentence.A modifier describes,clarifies,or gives more detail about a concept.A split infinitive is where an adverb or adverbial phrase comes between the marker to and the bare infinitive form of a verb.Camouflaged verbs are words that end in -ion,-tion,-ing,-ment,-ant,-ent,-ence,-ance,and -ency.

What Is Wrong with the Following Sentence? "To Waste Time