Which sentence from the selection demonstrates parallelism? a) "to him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity." eliminate b) "within the now-famous address is what historian philip s. foner has called 'probably the most moving passage in all of douglass' speeches.'" c) "there is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the united states, at this very hour." d) "on july 5, 1852, douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the declaration of independence, held at rochester's corinthian hall."

A) "To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity." This sentence is an instance of parallellism. The same pattern is repeated- look at the underlined words-. Subject + to be + complement. However, this pattern is used in "your celebration is a sham". In the other two structures the verb to be has been omitted and a comma has been used,instead. " your boasted liberty, (is) an unholy license; your national greatness, (is) swelling vanity." The verb to be can be taken out since it can be easily retrieved from the context. If it is ellided, it should be replaced by a comma.

A is the correct answer

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."

third person

explanation:

note the usage of names and pronouns, "james" & "the old man". this alone can confirm it as third person, as first person uses "i" and the like, while second person uses "you" and the like.

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