What is the author's viewpoint in this excerpt? Read the excerpt from "Bone Detective," by Lorraine

Jean Hopping.

The Hunley recovery team planned to display Diane's

casts in a museum that was about to be built. But did the

casts belong in a public exhibit? Some people objected

to displaying soldiers' remains—even though they were

plastic replicas. Diane saw nothing wrong with it. In fact,

she had no qualms about showing the real bones.

"If people want to really learn about the soldiers," she

said, "you have to show the bones. The bone is a record

of a person's life, especially the last part-the

circumstances of death."

How and why did the Hunley sink? What can we learn

about the lives-and deaths-of its ill-fated crew?

Scientists will likely be investigating the answers for

years to come, thanks in part to Diane's casts.

The author disagrees with Diane France and her

dec

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.

you do this because a real teammate puts the team first

the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel

answer: first person

explanation: