1. Identify the tenses in bold, then match them with the correct description. 1. He works in a TV studio.
2. Tom is always causing trouble at work.
3. She is working at a supermarket at present.
4. Fish live in the sea.
5. She is looking for a job as a nanny in Madrid.
6. The thief grabs the bag and disappears.
7. He usually leaves his office at 6.00pm.
8. She starts her new job on Monday.
9. We are attending a seminar on Monday.
10. The new company is growing steadily.
a) temporary situation
b) permanent state
c) fixed arrangements in the near future
d) dramatic narrative (reviews/sport commentaries)
e) permanent truths or laws of nature
f) changing or developing situations
g) timetables/programmes with future meaning
h) frequently repeated actions expressing annoyance
i) actions happening at or around the time of speaking
j) repeated/habitual actions

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.

*meditation

*music

*reading

*playing games

*going out to eat

european parent languages

expresses state of being