Either do well in school or giving up the drums.
which error is made in the above sentence?
a. lacking parallelism
b. coordinating excessively
c. using an incorrect conjunction
d. linking coordinate ideas incorrectly

The correct answer is the following: option A. The error that is made in the sentence showed in the question is that the sentence lacks parallelism. Parallelism is a grammatical construction used to balance nouns with nouns, participles with participles, infinitives with infinitives, clauses with clauses, in order to promote clarity and readability to any text.

In the sentence "Either do well in school or giving up the drums" the writer did not use parallelism and as a result, the sentence is not clear enough. The proper way to write such sentence would be: Either do well in school or give up the drums, so that there is a balance between the tense of the verb used within the sentence.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)