Read this excerpt from "Life Without Go-Go Boots" by Barbara Kingsolver and answer the question. We lived in the country, in the middle of an alfalfa field; we had no immediate access to Bobbie Brooks

sweaters. I went to school in the hand-me-downs of a cousin three years older. She had excellent fashion

sense, but during the three-year lag her every sleek outfit turned to a pumpkin.2 ... My black lace-up oxfords,

which my parents perceived to have orthopedic value, carried their own weight in the spectacle. I suspected

people noticed, and I knew it for sure on the day Billy Stamps announced to the lunch line, "Make way for the

Bride of Frankenstein."4

Which of the numbered sentences from the excerpt shows the most commentary and why?

1 - says something about family's social and economic status

2 - is about fairy tales

3- is about medical value of shoes

4- quotes popular culture

1 - says something about family's social and economic status

Explanation:

Sentence 1 situates us in relation to history. This is because it presents the family's financial situation, showing that they did not have enough money to buy clothes, needing donations from the family, that they donated low quality clothes and that evidenced the family's economic situation, causing embarrassing episodes to the narrator of the text , as Frankenstein's bride compares her on account of the ugly patched clothes and shoes.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

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

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents 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 both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

an unbound book has no cover; paris is a single man

explanation: