Read the sentence from “fish cheeks.”

a plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires.

amy tan compares squid to bicycle tires to show that the squid

are black in color.

are round in shape.

do not look appetizing.

have a grooved surface.

Option D. Amy Tan compares squid to bicycle tires to show that the squid have a grooved surface.

Explanation:

In the sentence from "Fish Cheeks" author Amy Tan compares the plate of squid with their backs crisscrossed with knife markings to cicycle tires in order to express that the squid has a grooved surface, similar to the one present in tires.

answer: look i dont mean

explanation: nooobras

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.