Question

Which sentence best describes the faulty parallel structure in this sentence?

The economic priorities of democratic states are very different from autocratic states.
One element in the comparison is a noun phrase, but the other is not.
The word states is repeated in both elements of the comparison.
The two elements of the comparison, as stated, lack verb forms.
The second noun phrase in the comparison is not stated completely.

Answer 1

The sentence 'The economic priorities of democratic states are very different from autocratic states.' has a faulty parallel structure because the second noun phrase in the comparison is not fully stated.

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence that best describes the faulty parallel structure in 'The economic priorities of democratic states are very different from autocratic states.' is 'The second noun phrase in the comparison is not stated completely.' In this sentence, the first element of the comparison refers to 'the economic priorities of democratic states,' but the second element should similarly relate to the economic priorities of autocratic states to maintain parallelism. To correct the faulty parallel structure, the sentence could be rephrased to 'The economic priorities of democratic states are very different from those of autocratic states.'

Answer 2

The sentence which best describes the faulty parallel structure of the sentence above is:

The word states is repeated in both elements of the comparison.

In the concept of parallelism, grammatical patterns should conform with all the others in equal importance. It should also be noted that there is a need for it to avoid redundancy, therefore omission of some words with the same structure is implemented.