Which phrase provides context clues for the meaning of the word horticulture? Alex is interested in taking a horticulture class in high school. He loves the outdoors and helping his mom in the garden. He hopes to learn more about growing fruits, vegetables, and flowers.

He hopes to learn more about growing fruits, vegetables, and flowers.

Explanation:

Alex is said to be interested in taking a horticulture class in high school, so the phrase that provides context clues for the meaning of the word 'horticulture' is the phrase which talks about Alex hoping to learn more about growing fruits, vegetables and flowers.

Horticulture is the practice of garden cultivation which includes fruits, vegetables, etc and their management.

So, if Alex wants to take horticulture class in high school, that means that he wants to learn more about it.

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 answer is a (apex)