Read this sentence from the text. They pretended to eat, staring at the plastic yellow table, as the security guard entered the food court.

How could the words of this sentence be rearranged without changing its meaning?

A. Staring at the plastic yellow table, the security guard entered the food court as they pretended to eat.
B. Staring at the plastic yellow table, they pretended to eat as the security guard entered the food court.
C. As they pretended to eat, the security guard entered the food court, staring at the plastic yellow table.
D. The security guard entered the food court, staring at the plastic yellow table, as they pretended to eat.

B

Explanation:

B is the only sentence that correctly shows that the ones eating were the ones staring at the table.

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.

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