1. select the option that fills in the blank and maintains parallel structure. we searched the car trunk, and the top of the refrigerator, but we could not find the box of cornflakes that we remember buying. a. looked on the pantry shelves b. on the pantry shelves c. the pantry shelves 2. select the option that fills in the blank and maintains parallel structure. belinda saw very little of the horror movie, for she shut her eyes when she heard the monster's footsteps in the dead leaves, and when characters started screaming. a. when the violins began to play b. while listening to the violins play c. during the violin music 3. select the option that fills in the blank and maintains parallel structure. teresa was expecting a visit from her mother, so she spent the day cleaning the shelves of the refrigerator, scrubbing mold from the bathroom tile grout, and a. she removed dog hair from the sofa cushions b. removing dog hair from the sofa cushions c. removed dog hair from the sofa cushions 4. choose the one with proper subject-verb agreement. a. in regions of the world where poverty prevails, starvation and poor hygiene lead to disease. b. open and honest communication contribute to a happy relationship. c. the president or the vice president are speaking today. d. the purpose of this essay is to investigate how the design of toothbrushes have changed over time. 5. choose the one with proper subject-verb agreement. a. a large herd of cows were grazing by the river. b. a pound of cookies cost about a dollar. c. each of us want to do well in school. d. interesting news is what sells our paper.

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1. C

2. A.

3.removing dog hair from the sofa cushions

the rest i'm still answering but hopefully someone will help you on those!

1) We searched the car trunk, the pantry shelves, and the top of the refrigerator, but we could not find the box of cornflakes that we remember buying.

2)Belinda saw very little of the horror movie, for she shut her eyes when the violins began to play, when she heard the monster's footsteps in the dead leaves, and when characters started screaming.

3) Teresa was expecting a visit from her mother, so she spent the day cleaning the shelves of the refrigerator, scrubbing mold from the bathroom tile grout, and removing dog hair from the sofa cushions.

4)In regions of the world where poverty prevails, starvation and poor hygiene lead to disease.

5) Interesting news is what sells our paper. (news is an uncountable noun)

Explanation:

In English, structures in  sentences MUST be balanced. That is to say, the sentence has to have parallelism in structures. In grammar, parallel structures are those which have the same grammatical structure. For example, in the first sentence several nouns are repited, and it would be incorrect if we put another structure (a verb phrase, for example) in the middle of a enumeration of nouns.

As in many languages, in English, the subject has to agree or concord with the verb; this is called subject/verb agreement. That is, if the subject is singular, the verb MUST be singular, and if the subject is composed of two or more people/objects, the verb MUST be plural. If not, there is a serious grammar mistake, which makes ungrammatical the complete sentence.

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below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

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credit to mohana ram murugiah.

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teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.