parallelism

[parveen chaudhary]

Is the following sentence parallel.

Sliding down Thunder Mountain,artfully spraying snow across his rival’s face, and getting
the best seat in the ski lodge were Robert’s goals for the afternoon.

The sentence has been taken from "workbook for dummies".

Or shoud we write:
Sliding down Thunder Mountain, spraying snow artfully across his rival’s face, and getting
the best seat in the ski lodge were Robert’s goals for the afternoon

[rfernandez]

Both sentences are parallel in that both feature a series of gerund phrases.

One could argue that the second is more parallel because each element in the series starts with the gerund itself: sliding..., spraying..., and getting...

[PARVEEN CHAUDHARY]

Thank you for the reply.
You guys take pain while answering-I am highly impressed.

[jwinawer]

NP. And good luck!