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Read the sentence. At age 22, Benjamin Franklin began publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette, and he wrote most of the articles for it. Which revision corrects the faulty parallelism? At age 22, Benjamin Franklin, who began publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette and to write most of the articles for it. At age 22, Benjamin Franklin began to publish The Pennsylvania Gazette, and he also was the writer of most articles. At age 22, Benjamin Franklin began publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette and writing most of the articles for it. At age 22, Benjamin Franklin began publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette and to write most of the articles for it.

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at age 22,benjamin franklin began publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette and writing most of the articles for it.
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In traditional grammar, a faulty parallelism is that in which the sentence has two or more parts which have roughly a connection but are parallel. This occurs mostly in series of concepts such as those presented in this item. To correct that faulty parallelism, the sentence should have been constructed as that of the third choice,
"At age 22, Benjamin Franklin began publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette and writing most of the articles for it".
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