Is preaching another word for talking in this sentence? "The puritans were highly unfair people who banished Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams from the colony for preaching something other than the puritan views."

If not, please tell me another word for preaching that is a small word. Not a huge vocab word.

PLEASE HELP ASAP DUE IN LIKE 3 MINS

Not really.

Explanation:

"Preaching" is a religious term, and it is the delivery of a religious address/moral advice to an assembled group of people, typically in church.

In other words, it is giving a religious speech about the word of God, and trying to persuade other people to believe in a particular belief/follow a particular way of life.

"Talking" is merely a casual term that is informal, and does not necessarily fit in this situation.

I hope this helped! Let me know if you didn't understand some parts, I'll try to define it in an easier way.

~Jinachi~

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have 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 all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.