Select the answer with parallel structure. a. last week mark started coming home late, misses classes, and argues with his parents. b. last week mark started to come home late, to miss classes, and arguing. c. last week mark started coming home late, missing classes, and he is arguing with his parents. d. last week mark started coming home late, missing classes, and arguing with his parents.

D. Last week Mark started coming home late, missing classes, and arguing with his parents.

Explanation:

The answer with parallel structure is Last week Mark started coming home late, missing classes, and arguing with his parents. A parallel construction, or a parallel structure joins words, clauses. or phrases. These words, clauses, or phrases should have a parallel grammatical form. All the things that Mark started doing last week are listed in a parallel structure. They are all in the present continuous tense.

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.

it ends with a marriage, but also with prospero giving up his power.

the tempest is a play written by william shakespeare between 1610-1611, it narrates the story of prospero a magician that sets a storm to wreck a ship, this sets the story to kill the king of naples. while it is a romantic style play, it isn´t traditional because of the ending, it end with the marriage and the magician giving up his powers.