Read the passage. paraphrased from “the notorious jumping frog of calaveras county” a friend of the narrator’s asks him to call on talkative old simon wheeler. the friend says he wants news of his friend reverend leonidas w. smiley. instead, wheeler tells the narrator a long drawn-out story about jim smiley. as he tells the story, wheeler never smiles, and he never frowns. what is the bolded sentence an example of? a human foible a funny name an incongruity a hyperbole

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.

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