Combine the sentence using techniques of parallelism.
In return for their scholarships, Wooster's bagpipers must pipe for the school's football team. The terms of the scholarships also require the drummers to drum for the team. The dancers have to cheer the athletes from the sidelines.
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In return for their scholarships, Wooster’s bagpipers use their bagpipes for the school’s football team, while drummers are required to drum for the team and the dancers have to cheer for the athletes from the sidelines.
It makes sense -- but to get a better parallel structure -- it should be:
In return for their scholarships, Wooster’s bagpipers use their bagpipes for the school’s football team, drummers drum for the team, and the dancers cheer for the athletes.
To combine these sentences using the technique of parallelism, we need to express the actions of each group in a consistent and parallel structure.
Currently, the sentences are structured as:
- In return for their scholarships, Wooster's bagpipers must pipe for the school's football team.
- The terms of the scholarships also require the drummers to drum for the team.
- The dancers have to cheer the athletes from the sidelines.
To make them parallel, we can start with a common introductory phrase and rephrase each action in a similar format. For example:
- In return for their scholarships, Wooster's bagpipers must pipe for the school's football team, the drummers must drum for the team, and the dancers must cheer the athletes from the sidelines.
In this revised sentence, each action is expressed using the same structure, starting with "must" followed by the verb that describes the action associated with each group (i.e., "pipe," "drum," "cheer"). This maintains consistency and creates parallelism.