Select the phrase from the drop-down menu that best creates parallel structure in this sentence. people earned their livings by working in factories, operating small businesses, and as workers on farms. farm-related employment. to be workers on farms. working on farms.

D) Working on farms.

Explanation: Parallelism is a literary device that consists in the repetition of grammatical structures in different words or phrases. To create parallel structure in the given sentence we need to notice that the enumeration of the ways people earn their livings, starts with two elements that use verbs in the "-ing" form (working in factories, operating small businesses) so, to maintain the parallel structure we have to pick option D: working on farms.

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conflicting values are demonstrated between two different groups in animal farm. first, the farm animals value hard work. this is shown by them working late and working long hours at the request of the pigs. napoleon and the pigs, however, sleep late daily. furthermore, the animals value equality. this differs from the value of napoleon and the other pigs. instead of equality, they value only gaining power and maintaining their own privilege, which is demonstrated by their taking extra milk and sleeping in beds.

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