2. greg gives humorous account of his ‘solution’ to the problem of existing in high school. now look at it without the humor. what is greg’s problem?

Without the humor, we should be worried about Greg. This line tells us how bad he feels at school because of the simple fact of existing. Imagine how bad he must feel to look a solution for his existence. He probably feels as if he does not belong in there, like a freak kid that everyone makes fun of him. He can create depressive behaviours such as isolation, sadness, etc. that can lead him to, dramatically speaking, commit suicide. This is not a joke, he is probably having a mental illness because he does not feel comfortable with his life in high school.

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.

uh, the answer is d i guess.