You don't list any choices, but colloquialisms are used in informal speech. Hope it helps.
<span>The answer is option B
Nowadays, water scarcity is a problem for 1.2 billion people, almost one fifth of the world's population (7 billion). According to reports from United Nations Development Programme, in 2025,
this problem will reach 1.8 billion suffering total water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world's population might be living under water-stressed conditions.</span>
The correct answer is <span>A. At age 22, Benjamin Franklin began publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette and writing most of the articles for it.
When it comes to parallelism within sentences, it refers to the fact that the same form of words is used throughout. As you can see in sentence A, the same form of words publishing and writing is used - both of them are gerunds. The other sentences do not show parallelism.
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Answer:
c) a connection between urban and rural experiences
The answer is c.characterization