<em>Rumors of a new principal </em><em><u>spread</u></em><em> down the halls of the hectic and chaotic high school. </em>
As there are no options given, I gave the best response I could.
When rumors are passed along from person to person, it is said to be spread. If there are rumors of a new principal therefore, the most likely word to fill the space would have to be "spread" which would show that the rumors of a new principal are being passed around the school.
Parallel structure is about the same grammatical structure being used at multiple places in the text. The correct answer is:<span> a) words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure</span>
