Students are voting on the color of T-shirts to wear on their field trip. There are 160 students-65 boys and 95 girls-going on
the field trip. A random sample of students is chosen. Surveying the random sample produced a representative sample of the
population. Which was most likely true of the representative sample?

The representative sample contained all 160 students.

The representative sample contained more boys than girls.

The representative sample contained more girls than boys.

The representative sample contained an equal number of boys and girls.

The representative sample contained an equal number of boys and girls.

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.

that's a lot of reading foo

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