From the eleven points listed below, check the four points that would be especially when someone is trying to persuade you to agree with him. know whether the statement is based on fact. be comfortable, but not too comfortable. ask questions whenever possible. listen for a summary. determine whether the statement agrees with christian ideals and standards. take notes on key information. watch the speaker for clues to important information. remember that facts are colored by emotion. compare new information with what is known. ask myself whether i believe the statement because i like the person speaking. listen for key words and phrases.

1. Know whether the statement is based on fact.

2. Watch the speaker for clues to important information.

3. Remember that facts are colored by emotion.

4. Compare new information with what is known.

Explanation:

Referring to the modes of persuasion:

Pathos: Creating an emotional tone while persuading.

Logos: Citing facts in persuasion is important.

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 sentence does not violate the phrase structure second rule (introduced by noam chomsky) because noun phrases consist of a determiner such as a, the or every, and a noun. in the sentence, the noun phrase the cake includes a determiner (the) and a noun (cake).

on the other hand, the first rule indicates that a sentence encloses a noun phrase, followed by a verb phrase. the example sentence can be analysed as follows:

john (n) + ate (v) + the (det) + cake (n).