Which sentence contains an error in parallel structure?
a builders need to be good at planning and calculating.
b my youngest brother is a singer, dancer, and paints.
d the resort's pool water was warm, salty, and soothing.
d zoos should keep animals safe, healthy, and well-fed.

"B My youngest brother is a singer, dancer, and paints." is the sentence with the error.

Explanation: The reason why is because parallel sentences must stick with the form it started with. If all the other predicate adjectives are adjectives, then there cannot be a noun in the list of predicate adjectives. If the nouns end in -ing then all of other nouns in that list must end in -ing. All parallel sentences must stay in form with each other.

is that lennie, a man with a mental disability, is treated poorly due to his mental disability

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)