I tried to avert her attention from the television by asking her to help me with my homework.
Answer:
Geodes
they are natural rocks with crystal formations naturally occuring inside.
you wont know what the crystals inside look like until you open it yourself, hence getting more people to buy due to its surprise factor.
Using short sentences makes the author sound rude. using run-on sentences makes the author seem super talkative. I suggest use medium length sentences to set the tone.
So they believe what you say. It would be a waste of time to communicate with your audience if they dont even believe you.
The sentence that has faulty parallel structure is option A
The trip started in Colorado, went through New Mexico, and the the end being California.
Faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form. It does not follow the same grammatical pattern according verb tenses. The correct version would be and ended in Carlifornia