Refer to Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France for a complete version of this text. Which two responses are main ideas from the story about Dr. Mesmer?

A) Dr. Mesmer charges his patients 100 gold louis to treat them.

B) People find the discovery of invisible gases to be more amazing than Dr. Mesmer's mysterious force.

C) Ben Franklin uses the scientific method to prove that Dr. Mesmer is a fake.

D) Though he does not know it. Dr. Mesmer's success demonstrates the power of the human mind.

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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.

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