The report recommended that the hospital should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive services should be consolidated, and use space in other hospitals.

(A) should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive services should be consolidated, and use space in other hospitals
(B) should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive services should be consolidated, and other hospitals’ space be used
(C) should eliminate unneeded beds, expensive services should be consolidated, and to use space in other hospitals
(D) eliminate unneeded beds, consolidate expensive services, and other hospitals’ space used
(E) eliminate unneeded beds, consolidate expensive services, and use space in other hospitals

The underlined portion of the sentence is incoherent and runs together two sentences (the hospital should eliminate unneeded beck, expensive services should be consolidated). Making the report’s three recommendations into a series of three grammatically parallel elements corrects this problem. Since the report recommended, it is redundant to use should. Each of the three parallel elements may consist of a verb and an object (1) eliminate unneeded beds, (2) consolidate expensive services, and (3) use space in other hospitals.

A Incoherent construction includes a run-on sentence; following recommended, should is redundant
B Following recommended, should is redundant; the three elements in the
series are not parallel
C Following recommended, should is redundant; the second and third elements are not parallel o the first
D Other hospitals’ space used is awkward and not parallel to the other two elements
E Correct. In this concise sentence, each of the three parallel elements in the series consists of a verb and an object.

The correct answer is E.

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