Grammar Correction: 'Having' in Parallel Structure

The sentence 'We normally meet at a restaurant and having dinner together. Having casual conversation and talk about the latest gossip, roast about things in life and work.' contains a grammatical error in its use of 'having'.

Here's the corrected version:

We normally meet at a restaurant and have dinner together. We have casual conversations, talk about the latest gossip, and roast things in life and work.

Explanation:

The issue lies in the lack of parallel structure. Parallel structure means using the same grammatical form to express a series of related ideas. In the original sentence, 'having dinner together' and the subsequent actions are not in the same grammatical form.

To correct this, we change 'having dinner together' to 'have dinner together', making it consistent with the other verbs 'have', 'talk', and 'roast'. This creates a clear and grammatically correct parallel structure.