Why are the other boys laughing at the main character
of the poem?
A. They think the main character getting hit by the ball
is funny.
B. They think the main character looks funny holding
his head.
C. They think it is funny that the main character tries to
play baseball.
D. They think it is funny that the main character
mistakes his head for his shin.

D.They think it is funny that the main character

mistakes his head for his shin.

Explanation:

I just did the assignment.

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.

the second option.is correct