Which revision most effectively corrects the faulty parallelism in this sentence? The novel is about a woman who is young, poor,
and works hard. A. The novel is about a young poor woman and how she works hard. B. The novel is about a woman who is young, and she is poor and works hard. C.The novel is about a woman who is young, poor, and hardworking. D. The novel is about a young poor woman and why she has to work hard.
Answer: C) The novel is about a woman who is young, poor, and hardworking.
Explanation: parallelism is a literary device that consists in the repetition of the grammatical structure of different words or phrases in a sentence or paragraph, in order to emphasize an idea or to create an impact in the audience. The given sentence has a faulty parallelism because the first two elements of the list (young and poor) are adjectives, while the last element is a verb and an adverb (works hard). The option that corrects this error is option C, because it changes "works hard" for "hardworking" which is also an adjective.
A predicate is a part of the sentence that describes the subject. An adjective is a word that describes the noun. The predicate adjective in the given sentence above is the word "helpful" and this predicate adjective describes the noun "Kathy" which is the subject of the sentence.
We argue that waiting for experiences tends to be more positive than waiting for possessions. Four studies demonstrate that people derive more happiness from the anticipation of experiential purchases and that waiting for an experience tends to be more pleasurable and exciting than waiting to receive a material good.
