Whenever anything went wrong, they always blamed Stanley's no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
Parallel structure for this sentence would be: Carlos likes water skiing, scuba diving, and parasailing. So the answer would be b.
persuade
In a text that is written to persuade, the author's primary purpose is to compel readers to take action, convince them of an idea through argument, or to reaffirm their existing beliefs.
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Great job George Washington