Read the sentence. The Delaware River is a border not only for Philadelphia but also divides Pennsylvania from New Jersey. Which
revision corrects the faulty parallelism below? a. The Delaware River divides Pennsylvania and New Jersey as well as bordering Philadelphia.
b. The Delaware River not only borders Philadelphia but also divides Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
c. The Delaware River not only borders Philadelphia but also is a divider between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
d. The Delaware River is a divider between Pennsylvania and New Jersey while also bordering Philadelphia
Answer: B) The Delaware River not only borders Philadelphia but also divides Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Explanation: parallelism is a literary device that consists in the repetiton of grammatical structures in a sentence or paragraph. In the given sentence we can see an example of a faulty parallelism because the grammatical structures "is a border" and "divides" aren't the same, they should both be in the same form, for this reason the correct answer is option B: The Delaware River not only borders Philadelphia but also divides Pennsylvania and New Jersey, they are both in present form.
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