Which sentence avoids a parallelism problem? a. the declaration of independence was bold, outrageous, and it provoked the anger of the king. b. the declaration of independence was bold, it outraged the king, and provocative. c. the declaration of independence was bold, outrageous, and provocative. d. the declaration of independence was bold, outrageous in attitude, and it provoked the anger of the king?

c. the declaration of independence was bold, outrageous, and provocative.

Parallelism is a grammatical feature of language, where words and phrases linked with conjunction have the same structure and form. 

An example of parallelism in a sentence is: "He carried a hat, umbrella and beach towel". In this sentence the linked words (hat, umbrella and beach towel are all nouns). 

However, if the above sentence is phrased as: "He carried a hat, umbrella, and he also took along a beach towel", it has faulty parallelism as the linked words (hat, umbrella and beach towel) do not have the same form.

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