Correcting faulty parallelism.
1.Medical tests showed that neither being allergic to dust nor seasonal hay fever caused the child’s coughing fits.
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To correct the faulty parallelism in the sentence, you should ensure that both elements being compared are in the same grammatical form. In this case, the sentence is comparing two noun phrases: "being allergic to dust" and "seasonal hay fever."
To correct the faulty parallelism, you can rephrase the sentence in a parallel structure. One option could be: "Medical tests showed that the child's coughing fits were not caused by either an allergy to dust or seasonal hay fever."
In this corrected version, both elements ("an allergy to dust" and "seasonal hay fever") are noun phrases, maintaining parallelism in the sentence.