Which of the following uses parallel structure? our new paralegal must be smart, efficient, and have flexibility. the accident shattered her pelvis, dislocated her foot, and her spinal column was broken in three places. big business demands superior forecasting, reporting, and analyzing. a good financial planner must be certified, competent, and must possess ethical standards. business writing should be concise, informative, and have no mistakes.

Big business demands superior forecasting, reporting, and analyzing.

Explanation:

Parallel structure (parallelism) is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. This structure is used to add clarity to the writing and to make it easier to understand.

From the given sentences, only the sentence - Big business demands superior forecasting, reporting, and analyzing - has a parallel structure. It creates a parallel structure with words that end in -ing: forecasting, reporting, and analyzing.

Other sentences don't have parallel structures:

Our new paralegal must be smart, efficient, and have flexibility - have flexibility changes the structure -->> be + adjective, and have + noun.

The accident shattered her pelvis, dislocated her foot, and her spinal column was broken in three places - the first two verbs are past tense, and the third one is used in the passive voice.

A good financial planner must be certified, competent, and must possess ethical standards - must possess ethical standards changes the structure -->> be + adjective, and have + noun.

Business writing should be concise, informative, and have no mistakes - have no mistakes changes the structure -->> be + adjective, and have + noun.

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government is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.