How did the meat-packing industry respond to reports of unsanitary and unsafe conditions within their companies? a. they denied there was a problem and fought against federal oversight. b. the launched private investigations to see what changes needed to be made. c. they asked the government to enact laws to clean up the industry. d. they shut down their factories and refused to pay workers' salaries.

THE ANSWER IS

A.They denied there was a problem and fought against federal oversight.

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The correct option is A,They denied there was a problem and fought against federal oversight.

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.