Question

Apollo, unused to rejection, sank down on his knees beside the tree and the river. There he stayed for a long, long time. Which sentence below best applies parallel structure to the combined sentences from this excerpt?

a) Rejected, Apollo, sank down on his knees, and stayed a long, long time beside the tree and river.
b) For a long, long time Apollo sank down beside the tree and river on his knees, rejected.
c) Apollo reacted to this unusual feeling of rejection by sinking down on his knees beside the tree and the river and remained there for a long, long time.
d) Apollo, unused to rejection, sank down on his knees beside the tree and the river where he stayed a long, long time.

Answer 1

Option d) Apollo, unused to rejection, sank down on his knees beside the tree and the river where he stayed a long, long time. has the best parallel structure.

Step-by-step explanation:

The best sentence that applies parallel structure to the combined sentences from the given excerpt is option d) Apollo, unused to rejection, sank down on his knees beside the tree and the river where he stayed a long, long time. Parallel structure involves using the same grammatical form or structure in a series of words, phrases, or clauses. In this sentence, all the verbs are in the past tense and have a similar structure: sank, stayed.