Select the correct answer. What conflict is the narrator facing in this excerpt from Robert Cormier's "The Moustachen?

In this excerpt from Robert Cormier's "The Moustache", the conflict that the narrator is facing is an internal conflict. Mike, a 17-year-old has grown his facial hair and is wearing a mustache. When he visits his grandmother at the nursing home she mistakes him for his late husband.

Explanation:

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.