ANSWERS: 9
  • instead of praying for world peace, it should be pray for world peace.
  • Another person (Stephy) answering has said it well. Grammarians have a concept called parallel structure. Simply stated, this means that you do not change the form across a sentence. So, look at your list: drive (not driving), read (not reading), and then praying instead of pray. Another way of looking at it is that all these verbs follow should. You would never say "should praying." Finally, even if this is fixed, you still have an ugly sentence: Her advice meant that I should... How ugly is that? It would be much simpler, cleaner, and clearer to say this: She advised me to... or possibly: She advised me to do three things:
  • What everyone else has said plus one more thing. There should be no comma after "kids".
  • The last part is very awkward and probably incorrect. Sounds better to say "AND PRAY FOR WORLD PEACE".
  • No comma after kids (before "and) and "pray" not "praying".
  • The latter is present perfect? ;-)
  • First and formost, it's all caps. Praying should be pray!
  • Those who said the commas are wrong...are wrong. The comma before the "and" is totally appropriate. The word praying is definitely wrong, though...
  • you have changed tense in the sentence, the word praying for world peace in the context of the sentence is incorrect, the word should be simply pray, to stay in tense with the rest of the sentence. as well, you dont need a comma before the word and.

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