Question

Which revision most effectively corrects the faulty parallelism in this sentence?

William Shakespeare was an actor, a playwright, and he also wrote poetry.


a-William Shakespeare wrote poetry as well as acting and writing plays.
b-William Shakespeare, an actor, not only wrote plays but also poems.
c-Playwright William Shakespeare was also an actor, and he wrote poems.
d-William Shakespeare was an actor, a playwright, and a poet.

Answer 1

The Correct Answer for Gradpoint is D!!!!

Answer 2

The parallelism is a literary device in which the sentence composed by part that are similar or the same in construction, sound, meaning or grammatically way, for example “I like listening to music always, in class, at work, at home and on the bus”, here you can see that several locations are mentioned this a way of parallelism. In the given sentence to correct the faulty the sentence should be “William Shakespeare was an actor, a playwright, and a poet.” The answer is D.