The following question refers to stolen day : in what sense is the narrator s day stolen
a. the narrator s mother makes him lay down for hours.
b. the narrator s perfect day is ruined.
c. the narrator s day has been stolen away because his illness limits his activities
d. the narrator should have been in school, but he faked sick and had a day to himself.

d. the narrator should have been in school, but he faked sick and had a day to himself.

Explanation:

This activity is about the short story "Stolen day".

The narrator feels sick only because he sees a boy who has a disease and cannot go to school and he starts believing he has the same disease. He leaves school and goes home where he claims his mother does not give him enough attention.

Answers "b" and "c" are not correct because he did not have a plan in the first place and he did went fishing; and I also do not believe answer "a" is correct because the narrator's mother only makes him lay for one or two hours and then he says he feels okay again.

The correct answer is "d".

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.

the correct answer is:   [d]:   " espionage " .

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