Read these lines from the poem again: but the lost joys is past! let your tears in sorrow roll like the rain that ust to dapple up the old swimmin'–hole. what theme from the poem do these lines illustrate? a. the passage of time and growing old can people forget. b. the passage of time and growing old can make people happy. c. the passage of time and growing old can people remember. d. the passage of time and growing old can make people sad.

The Answer is A.

Explanation: Well I took the test and I remember it was A.

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.