Your school has been awarded a grant and plans to use the money to purchase smart devices for students. Write an essay in which you argue whether or not this technology purchase will improve students’ lives. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the “Do Smart Devices Improve Student Lives?” passage set.

The School should buy the smart devices

Explanation:

While it is true that smart devices can be distracting for students, not only in school, but also at home, that is not a good enough reason to keep students from buying and using those devices.

Students should be taught in how to use them in a moderate manner, because the benefits from their use can be very positive for their education, and their general life. They should be warned about the dangers of technology addiction, and be encouraged to use the devices for education and research purposes.

If these actions are taken in a sound manner, the academic performance of the students should be better after the smart devices are purchased.

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.

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