Select the sentence that uses correct parallel construction.
a.
the student body president would organize pep rallies and getting better food in the cafeteria.
• b.
sheila visited paris last summer and climbed the eiffel tower.
c. keith wanted to go out and buy some groceries and also filled gas in his car.
d.
the new high school principal came from another school in the district and is friendly.
e. i like to go shopping, go trekking, and ride my bicycle.

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia