Identify the correct relative pronoun for the following sentence.

I’ve lost the notes I took in that meeting.

Question 4 options:

A.) That.

B.) Who.

C.) Whichever.

D.) Whom.

That

Explanation:

We can find our answer by process of elimination:

Let's fill in the blank to each question and see how each sounds and how it relates to the correct relative pronoun.

I’ve lost the notes  that  I took in that meeting.

"That" seems to sound alright.

I’ve lost the notes  who I took in that meeting.

"Who" does not sound right.

I’ve lost the notes  whichever I took in that meeting.

"Whichever" does not sound right.

I’ve lost the notes whom  I took in that meeting.

"Whom" does not sound right.

Since all others do not sound right we can conclude that "That" is the correct answer.

Check:

A relative pronoun is a type of pronoun that often introduces dependent (or relative) clauses in sentences. They also can stand alone as the subject or object of a sentence. There is a specific list of relative pronouns, and here they are: who, whoever, whom, whomever, that, which, when, where, and whose.

In that case, we can see that the word that is a relative pronoun. Thus, our answer of "That"  is correct. Also it refers to a thing not a person.

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.

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .