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Parallel structure happens in this case when the list of items all has the same grammatical structure. The list of people first begins with the occupation (writer, orator, sculptor) and is then followed by the person's name (Isocrates, Demosthenes, Praxiteles). Options A and C do not include Praxiteles' occupation. Option B does tell you his occupation but it doesn't use the same grammatical structure.
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I began to do the homework.
I will begin the homework later.
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words that have the same or very similar meanings
Answer:
1. Ivan Ilyich wanted to weep, wanted to be petted and cried over, and then his colleague Shebek would come, and instead of weeping and being petted, Ivan Ilyich would assume a serious, severe, and profound air.
2. "This falsity around him and within him did more than anything else to poison his last days
Explanation:
According to the given excerpt from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan llyich, the author talks about the life and death of Ivan Ilyich and how the falsity around him helped hasten his death.
The two sentences in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan llyich that reflects the author's belief that Russia's rising middle class was unable to express genuine emotion are the statement that Ivan Ilyich would want to express emotions of sadness and crying but when his comrade came over, he would pretend and assume to be serious and unbothered, and the statement about the falsity around Ivan Ilyich poisoned hisast days.
