Marking branliest! you read the passage from sugar changed the world. the muslims worked out a new form of farming to handle sugar, which came to be called the sugar plantation. a plantation was not a new technology but, rather, a new way of organizing planting, growing, cutting, and refining a crop. on a regular farm there may be cows, pigs, and chickens; fields of grain; orchards filled with fruit—many different kinds of foods to eat or sell. by contrast, the plantation had only one purpose: to create a single product that could be grown, ground, boiled, dried, and sold to distant markets. since one cannot live on sugar, the crop grown on plantations could not even feed the people who harvested it. never before in human history had farms been run this way, as machines designed to satisfy just one craving of buyers who could be thousands of miles away. on a plantation there were large groups of workers—between fifty and several hundred. the mill was right next to the crop, so that growing and grinding took place in the same spot. which text evidence best supports the authors' claim? "a plantation was not a new technology but, rather, a new way of organizing planting, growing, cutting, and refining a crop." "by contrast, the plantation had only one purpose: to create a single product that could be grown, ground, boiled, dried, and sold to distant markets." "since one cannot live on sugar, the crop grown on plantations could not even feed the people who harvested it." "the mill was right next to the crop, so that growing and grinding took place in the same spot."

The author wants to convey how the sugar business marked a before and after in the way agriculture was conducted, so the statement "A plantation was not a new technology but, rather, a new way of organizing planting, growing, cutting, and refining a crop" is what best illustrates their point. It introduces the reason why the sugar business was so revolutionary within its field

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have a basic subject+verb+object structure.

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.