Nonrestrictive elements and parallel structureanalyze the effect of commasexperts told [women] how to catch a manand keep him, how to breastfeed children and handle their toilet training, how to cope withsibling rivalry and adolescent rebellion; how to buy a dishwasher, bake bread, cookgourmet snails, and build a swimming poolwith their own hands; how to dress, look, and act more feminine and make marriage more exciting; how to keep their husbands from dying young and their sons from growing into delinquents. they were taught to pity the neurotic, unfeminine, unhappy women who wanted to be poets or physicists or presidents. what is the effect of friedan's comma usage inthis excerpt? a)it shows the building importance of each item in friedan's list of ideal female traits. b)it separates items in a long list ofexpectations without slowing the pace of the paragraph. c)it creates abrupt pauses that allow the reader time to appreciate the absurdity of each additional skill.

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.

1: indirect

2: indirect

3: direct

4: indirect

5: direct

explanation: