Question

which sentence has the strongest parallelism? select the best answer.

option 1:
she is making lunch for her son. she is making a sandwich with pickles, lettuce, and she adds tomatoes. she knows her son likes lunches with variety, salty, and something sweet. she makes sure to add a little treat to his lunch box.

option 2:
she is making lunch for her son. she is making a sandwich with pickles, lettuce, and she adds tomatoes. she knows her son likes lunches with variety, salty, and something sweet. she makes sure to add a little treat to his lunch box.

Explanation:

🆕 New Concept Discovered: Parallel Structure in Sentences
Matching grammatical forms in a list

Step 1: Understand Parallelism

Parallelism (or parallel structure) means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. This happens when words, phrases, or clauses in a list or comparison share the same grammatical structure.

Let's look at the sentences in the provided passage to find lists or series of items:

1. Sentence A: "She is making a sandwich with pickles, lettuce, and she adds tomatoes."

• This sentence contains a list of ingredients: "pickles" (noun), "lettuce" (noun), and "she adds tomatoes" (independent clause).
• Because the last item changes from a simple noun to a full clause, this sentence has weak/broken parallelism.

1. Sentence B: "She knows her son likes lunches that are salty and something sweet."

• This sentence compares or lists preferences: "salty" (adjective) and "something sweet" (noun phrase).
• Because the grammatical forms do not match, this sentence has weak/broken parallelism.

1. Sentence C: "She knows her son likes lunches that are crunchy, salty, and sweet." (Visible in the top cropped version of the text)

• This sentence lists three descriptors: "crunchy" (adjective), "salty" (adjective), and "sweet" (adjective).
• Because all three items in the list are adjectives, this sentence has strong parallelism.

Step 2: Identify the Target Sentence

Let's look closely at the options presented in the image. The user is asked to select the sentence that has the strongest parallelism:

• Sentence 1: "She is making a sandwich with pickles, lettuce, and she adds tomatoes." (Non-parallel: noun, noun, clause)
• Sentence 2: "She knows her son likes lunches that are crunchy, salty, and sweet." (Parallel: adjective, adjective, adjective)
• Sentence 3: "She makes sure to add a little treat to his lunch box." (Simple sentence, no list/parallel structure to evaluate)

The sentence with the strongest parallel structure is:
"She knows her son likes lunches that are crunchy, salty, and sweet."

Answer:

She knows her son likes lunches that are crunchy, salty, and sweet.