Jenkins presents an impressionistic description when he writes, "I'm not sure any of us are at our best living in paradise." What does Jenkins mean here? Why, after his objective description immediately before this sentence, does Jenkins choose to share his thoughts about what he is describing? How is this important when looking at his larger task, which is his bike trip? (TO SHAKE THE SLEEPING SELF, by jedidiah jenkins)

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.

i think it is d tell if im wrong

answer is b "guaranteed the safety of any merchant"

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