Blushing Caroline thanked him for the compliment and stammered that he also had beautiful eyes. Which revision correctly punctuates the sentence? Question 2 options: a) Blushing Caroline thanked him for the compliment, and stammered that he also had beautiful eyes. b) Blushing, Caroline thanked him for the compliment and stammered that he also, had beautiful eyes. c) Blushing Caroline thanked him, for the compliment and stammered that he also had beautiful eyes. d) Blushing, Caroline thanked him for the compliment and stammered that he also had beautiful eyes.

D) Blushing, Caroline thanked him for the compliment and stammered that he also had beautiful eyes.

Explanation:

Blushing is a verb, hence it usually cannot be combined with a noun at the beginning of a sentence to tell the person is doing something unless it is separated by a comma. Similar, blushing caroline would sound like a name rather than caroline blushing.

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.