Which example most clearly uses parallelism to convey the idea that absolutely no one can take a single day for granted? a. he decided to take care of it tomorrow — only tomorrow never came. b. seize the day! or you will be sorry. you will regret it. you will wish to go back. c. not an old granny, not a newborn baby, and not even you, my friend! d. waiting for tomorrow is like trying to hitch your wagon to a star.

A parallellism is when one or more sentences use a similar gramatical structure.

The answer is B.Seize the day! Or you will be sorry. You will regret it. You will wish to go back

See that every sentence has "You will" in the structure. Option C isn't the answer because the context isn't clear, it's not explicitly talking about time.

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.

it wants you to read whatever it gave you. then compare it to the others you read. you need to use textual evidence, and cite anything you do!

hope this !

~courtney