Engl079 week 4 Letter to Mr Jones

Dear Mr. Jones: You asked me to write a stupid letter in which I tell you why I am leaving your dumb company. Working in this apple plant was the worst job I ever had. Firs to of all, the work was physically hard. For ten hours a night, I took cartons that trolled down a metal track and stacked them onto wooden stands in a tractor-‐trailer. The second bad feature of the job I hated was the pay. I was getting the minimum wage at that time, $3.25 an hour. I had to work over sixty hours a week to get decent take-‐home pay. How much money do you make? I bet it is more than what we make.

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.

ladies and gentlemen, this message that you will hear is to my family:

dear family, you so much for giving me a possibility to live and i am happy that you took care of me and always telling me that i can do everything that i have in mind, you trusted me and still do it, i don't think i need to ask you for more, i love you.

you so much for listening.

hope this you.