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Question 11 pts

Which of the following demonstrates correctly structured (parallelism)?

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Mother was busy gathering the laundry, dusting the furniture, and washing the dishes.

Mother was busy gathering the laundry, dusting, and dishes.

Mother was busy with laundry, dusting the furniture, and washing the dishes.

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Question 21 pts

Is the following sentence correctly structured (parallelism):

We are giving away our furniture, selling our house, and moving to Spain.

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True

False

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Question 31 pts

Which of the following sentences are correctly structured (parallelism)?

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My favorite foods are eating pizza, chocolate, steak and donuts.

My favorite foods are pizza, chocolate, steak, and donuts.

My favorite foods are pizza, chocolate, steak, and eating donuts.

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Question 42.5 pts

Which of the following statements are true? Click all that apply.

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The most two most common dashes are the em dash and the en dash.

A dash is used to separate groups of words, not parts of words.

A dash is used to to join two or more words to indicate they have a combined meaning:

A dash is a horizontal line "–" that floats in the middle of a line of text

A dash is used to indicate a range or a pause.

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Question 52.5 pts

Which of the following sentences correctly uses "e.g." or "i.e."? Click all that apply.

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I like all fruits (i.e., I eat pretty much anything)

Bridget and Raul enjoy playing board games (i.e., Monopoly, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit).

The jacket is made of synthetic material, e.g. not leather.

Raymond loves listening to all types of music on the radio, e.g., classical, country western and reggae.

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Question 61 pts

"e.g." originates from Latin: exempli gratia, meaning ‘for example’.

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True

False

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Question 71 pts

"i.e." originates from Latin: id est, meaning ‘for example’.

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True

False

Answer 1

Parallelism in Sentences refers to matching grammatical structures. Elements in a sentense that have the same function or express similar ideas should be grammatically parallel or grammatically matched. Parallelism is used as a Rhetorical and stylistic device in literarture, speeches , advertising and popular things.

Q11)Mother was busy gathering the laundry, dusting the furniture, and washing the dishes is the perfect parallelism sentence

Q21) yes, it is True The statement is correctly Parallelised.(We are giving away our furniture, selling our house, and moving to Spain)

Q31)My favorite foods are pizza, chocolate, steak, and donuts.is the sentense correctly parallelised.

Q42.5)The following statements are true

A dash is used to separate groups of words, not parts of words.

A dash is a horizontal line "–" that floats in the middle of a line of text

A dash is used to indicate a range or a pause.

Q52.5)The following sentences are used correctly "e.g" and "i.e"

Raymond loves listening to all types of music on the radio, e.g., classical, country western and reggae.

Bridget and Raul enjoy playing board games (i.e., Monopoly, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit).

Q61)Yes it is True the "e.g" originates from latin Exempli gratia meaning 'For Example'

Q71) False, The word 'i.e' is from latin id est but meaning is not for example, it stands for "that is" or " in other words"