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Which sentence is an example of faulty parallelism?

Our softball coach says that we have great players but that we do not work as a team as well as we should.


Kelli drove to school, went to play rehearsal, and the play was wonderful!


I need to do my homework, mow the yard, and help Mom with the dishes this afternoon.


Sam prefers running track to playing football.

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Answer: B) Kelli drove to school, went to play rehearsal, and the play was wonderful!

Explanation: parallelism is a literary device that consists in the repetition of the grammatical structure of different words or phrases in a sentence or paragraph, in order to emphasize an idea or to create an impact in the audience. From the given options, the one that contains an example of a faulty parallelism is the corresponding to option B, because the last element of the list ("and the play was wonderful") doesn't follow the same grammatical structure as the first two elements ("drove to school" and "went to play rehearsal").

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