Question

Delivered on January 20, 2009

This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions — that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act — not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. All this we will do.

How does President Obama's Inaugural Address show a parallel construction?
Group of answer choices

by starting with the first thing that should be fixed and going in sequence

through comparing where the nation was to where it will be

by starting with the most important issue and going to the least important

through repetition of phrase "we will..." in the second paragraph

Answer 1

through repetition of phrase "we will..." in the second paragraph

Step-by-step explanation:

Parallel construction can be observed in a text when a sequence of sentences occurs where words, ideas, terms are repeated, or when several sentences are constructed with the same grammatical classes. In summary, the parallel construction refers to a sequence of phrases that has a repeating factor and makes these phrases similar.

In the text shown thus, we can see an example of this, through the repetition of phrase "we will ..." in the second paragraph.

Answer 2

Through repetition of phrase "we will..." in the second paragraph

Answer: Option D.

Step-by-step explanation:

Parallel construction in English grammar means the use of the same phrase through the whole outline. When the same phrase is repeated through out, it is known as parallel construction.

Since in the second paragraph of the speech of President Obama that has been talked about in the question, there is use of only one phrase through out which is "we will", there is use of parallel construction in that.