Read the passage.
How can the writer add parallelism in this passage?
(1) Ask young people today it they know of anyone who
has had smallpox, and they might ask, "What's
O by changing the phrase "young people" to "most
smallpox?" (2) That is because this disease was
people" in sentence 1
eradicated from the planet decades ago, thanks to
• by deleting the words obvious and potentially from
vaccinations. (3) Despite the obvious effectiveness of
sentence 3
vaccination. opponents of this procedure argue that
O by deleting "save lives" and adding the phrase "easy
humans are better off fighting diseases on their own
to administer" to the end of sentence 6
without adding anything potentially harmful to their to
• by shortening the passage to only five sentences by
bodies. (4) Still, the American Academy of Pediatrics
removing sentence 5
says that vaccines can be 99 percent effective, and the
Centers for Disease Control claims that, over a 10-year
period, vaccines allowed 322 million children to avoid
illnesses. (5) So the next time someone tells you that
vaccines are poisoned apples that will lead to a fate like
Snow White's, counter their argument with the facts. (6)
The bottom line is that vaccines are safe to use and