Question

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 1

The answer is C, the novel is about a woman who is young, poor, and hardworking.

Answer 2

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.