Read the excerpt from The Land. My daddy shook his head. "Paul only rides horses he knows."

"Horses I'm talking about aren't wild or anything," said Ray Sutcliffe. "They're my own horses, come straight out of Alabama, not any of these wild, new-breed western horses. In fact, I've got a fine stallion, a grey, I want to race, a real winner if he's got a good rider on his back. I'd pay your boy well. I'd pay you a fee too, on the wager, if I win."

My daddy smiled. "Well, if anybody could ride a horse and win a wager for you, it would be Paul here. But I still have to say no. I don't want this boy or the horse getting hurt. Like I said, my boy rides only horses he knows. I thank you, sir, though, for the offer."This dialogue advances the plot of the story by setting up a conflict between

Paul and his father.
Paul and Robert.
Paul and Mr. Sutcliffe.
Paul and Mitchell.

c Paul and mr.sutcliffe.

Explanation:

the conflict is caused because mr.sutcliffe wanted Paul to race one of his horses so he could win his wager but paul doesn't ride horses he doesn't know so that will most likely cause even more conflict later in the story for both paul and mr.sutcliffe.

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have 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 all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.