Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was an environmental science book. It documented the negative effects the indiscriminate use of pesticides has on the environment, particularly the birds.
The book became the tool that awakened the public to the real harm that big industrial companies have been hiding from them. Thus, driving them to launch an environmental movement that aims to prohibit the indiscriminate use of pesticides, specifically DDT.
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The sentence that best describes the faulty parallel structure of the given sentence above is, The second aim is described with a gerund instead of an infinitive. The first part of the sentence uses an infinitive which is "to earn". Therefore, the second should also be an infinitive, instead of a gerund. The correct sentence should be, He aims to earn a little and to spend less than he earns.
Answer:
b it takes hard work and discipline to be successful