Early english literature was written in old english, which is vastly different from modern english. often, these texts are translated into more accessible language for modern readers. when reading these older forms of english, it can be difficult to understand the meaning, even if the language has been modified. in your opinion, what makes this literature so difficult to read? is it the vocabulary, the characters, the type of storytelling, the density of the language, or something else? as you progressed through old english texts to middle english to modern english, how did your understanding of the literature change? can you explain what caused the change?

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.

may we see the excerpt?