I can tell you what it's not if you're having trouble understanding parallel structure...
"I think I will make a good president because I am honest, trustworthy, and I’m behaving responsibly.<span>"
If this was using parallel structure, it would be "...</span>because I am honest, trustworthy, and responsible."
"<span>I have many plans for the student council, such as making the council more organized, to ensure everyone has a voice, and I’ll be managing meetings more efficiently."
</span>For this, it'd have to be, "...such as making the council more organized, ensuring everyone has a voice, managing meetings more efficiently."
I'm not sure which sentence it actually is though. It's possible it's the last sentence.
In a 1939 letter, John Steinbeck wrote that his goal for The Grapes of Wrath was “to rip a reader's nerves to rags.” Through the novel, Steinbeck wanted readers to experience the life of the Dust Bowl migrants with whom he had spent time.
Answer:
1. His shirt is missing two buttons to be mended too.
2. Are you going to finish that book by Friday?
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Explanation:
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The gerund phrase in this sentence is <span>camping near a lake. The gerund itself is camping, but as a phrase, it has additional modifiers (near a lake) that describe it. Gerunds and gerund phrases function as nouns in a sentence. So, in this case, its noun use is predicate nominative (predicate noun), that is a noun that completes the predicate by telling us what the subject is.</span>
