Which is the strongest revision of the following sentence? the gym was full of people trying to fulfill their new year's resolutions: losing weight, to run five miles each week, and lift weights regularly. a) the gym was full of people trying to fulfill their new year's resolutions: losing weight, to run five miles each week, and lift weights regularly. b) the gym was full of people trying to fulfill their new year's resolutions: losing weight, running five miles each week, and lift weights regularly. c) the gym was full of people trying to fulfill their new year's resolutions: losing weight, to run five miles each week, and to lift weights regularly. d) the gym was full of people trying to fulfill their new year's resolutions: losing weight, running five miles each week, and lifting weights regularly.

The correct answer is D) The gym was full of people trying to fulfill their New Year's resolutions: losing weight, running five miles each week, and lifting weights regularly.

Explanation:

One of the recommendations for sentences that include a list or set of items with the same importance is that all related items are included using the same grammatical structure or pattern, which is known as parallelism.

This is missing in the sentence "The gym was full of people trying to fulfill their New Year's resolutions: losing weight, to run five miles each week, and lift weights regularly" because the New Year's resolutions are included using different patterns, for example, "losing weight" includes an -ing that cannot be found in others. Due to this, the strongest revision of the sentence is one that presents the list using the same pattern, which occurs in option D as all elements are introduced using -ing "losing weight, running five miles each week, and lifting weights regularly".

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

which of the following was specifically permitted by the emancipation proclamation?

free african americans were allowed to fight for the confederacy.

free african americans were allowed to enlist in the union army and navy.

enslaved people in border states were allowed to move to the north.

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