Every homeroom in our school has more girls than boys, so there are more girls than boys in our school. is this a sound or unsound argument?
a. sound
b. unsound

A.

Explanation:

A sound argument can be defined as those arguments whose all premises are true and thus valid.

The given statement is an example of a deductive argument. A deductive argument is those arguments that start with developing a factual premise to reach a valid conclusion. A valid argument whose premises are true will be considered a sound argument.

The given argument is valid as the facts presented "Every homeroom in our school has more girls than boys..." reaches a valid conclusion "so there are more girls than boys in our school."

Thus, this argument is sound.

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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