The death penalty, though legal in 32 states, is a cruel form of punishment and should be abolished because it doesn't do anything to deter criminals who are already going to commit a crime anyway and it is too expensive, costing almost three times as much as sentences someone to life in prison. what is the best way to revise this confusing sentence so that it is easier for the reader to understand? a. add additional facts to the sentence. b. fix the spelling and grammar mistakes. c. break it into smaller, simpler sentences. d. focus on a topic that is more relatable.

the actual answer is C

C.Break it into smaller, simpler sentences.

By breaking into smaller, simpler sentences the ideas will be clearer. This sentence has too much going on. It takes a stance on the death penalty, gives two reasons for the position, as well as includes a piece of data. This is too much for just one sentence. Some of the grammatical errors will be fixed when the sentence is broken into smaller sentences. This eliminates option B as a possibility. Option A would only make the sentence even more complicated. Option D would defeat the entire purpose by changing to a different subject.

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.

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