Select the phrase from the drop-down menu that best creates parallel structure in this sentence.
pioneers moved west to find land, to establish businesses, and sometimes
choose from below
a. because of debts
b. escaping debts
c. having to pay debts
d. to escape debts

The answer to your question would be that the phrase from the drop-down menu that best creates parallel structure in this sentence is the following one: Pioneers moved west to find land, to establish businesses, and sometimes to escape debts. That is, the correct option would be D.

Parallel structure, also known as parallelism, is the repetition of a grammatical construction within a sentence. In this case, the grammatical construction repetead is the infitive clause of purpose (to find land, to establish businesses, to escape debts).

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.