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Read the excerpt.
From "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning ... She had A heart-how shall I say?-too soon made glad, Too easily
Impressed, she liked whate'er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere. Sir, twas all onel My favor at her breast, The
dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She
rode with round the terrace-all and each would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least. She thanked men-
good! but thanked Somehow-I know not how-as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-year-old name with anybody's gift.
In these lines, what complaint does the speaker make about his late wife?
She lacked Intelligence and did not take life seriously,
She lived for the present and had no respect for the past.
She was too free with her appreciation of and enjoyment of others.
She was vain and expected to be showered with attention and gifts.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

explanation:

related words: : : : : : :

administration noun

the government of a country

affairs

events and activities relating to the government, politics, economy, etc. of a country, region, or the world

the corridors (of power)

the places where people use their political influence and major political decisions are made

government

the process, method, or effects of governing

play politics

to use politics for your own reasons, without caring about the effects on other people

political

relating to politics

political

interested or involved in politics

politically

in a political way

politicize

to bring an issue, organization, way of doing something, etc. to the attention of the public so that it can be discussed

politicize

to make someone more interested and involved in politics

politicking

political activity by someone who is only interested in doing things for their own advantage, not in other people

politics

the ideas and activities involved in getting power in a country or over a particular area of the world

politics

the profession of being a politician

politics

the ideas and activities used by people within a particular group to try to get power

public affairs

political issues that affect most people

public life

work that involves being known to a lot of people, especially in politics, but also in religion and education

public office

a job in the government that you have because you were chosen or elected

public service

work or important positions in the government, or in organizations controlled by the government

representation

in politics, the job of officially people and making decisions for them

sociopolitical

involving a combination of social and political matters

state

the government of a country