The sentence “Carl, you both lie and act like a terrific
monster!" my little brother declared” does not use parallel
structure correctly.
Parallel structure<span> <span>(also
called parallelism) is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a
sentence. By making each compared item or idea in your sentence follow the same
grammatical pattern, you create a </span>parallel<span> construction.</span></span>
The correct answer between all
the choices given is the second choice or letter B. I am hoping that this
answer has satisfied your query and it will be able to help you in your
endeavor, and if you would like, feel free to ask another question.
Answer: Change could to can.
Explanation: Its gramatically correct in casual talk, so if not my answer then it would probably be 'no change is needed'.
I hope this helped! :)
Answer:
(Mr. Dedalus's cup had rattled noisily against its saucer, and Stephen had tried to cover that shameful sign of his father's drinking bout of the night before by moving his chair and coughing.) (One humiliation had succeeded another--the false smiles of the market sellers, the curvetings and oglings of the barmaids with whom his father flirted, the compliments and encouraging words of his father's friends) (They had told him that he had a great look of his grandfather and Mr. Dedalus had agreed that he was an ugly likeness).
Explanation:
(Mr. Dedalus's cup had rattled noisily against its saucer, and Stephen had tried to cover that shameful sign of his father's drinking bout of the night before by moving his chair and coughing.) (One humiliation had succeeded another--the false smiles of the market sellers, the curvetings and oglings of the barmaids with whom his father flirted, the compliments and encouraging words of his father's friends) (They had told him that he had a great look of his grandfather and Mr. Dedalus had agreed that he was an ugly likeness).
