AP English Language and Composition 6.2 Passage Drill

is an example of what type of syntax And here

the potential answers Five dollars work well while some might

consider syntax the amount of money they leave in the

collection plate at church it's actually the sequence in which

words are put together to form sentences or in other

words the rules that dictate sentence structure Let's take a

look at a the authority a week Well according to

the great big book of syntax the off storia we

is a device an author or public speaker might use

to try and bond with their audience by suggesting that

they all share the same goal or belief Well in

this passage the author seems to suggest that we the

readers are just as dedicated about finding certain things Is

he is except it's funny The author never actually asked

us his readers if those were our desires or not

truth be told we usually desire a cheeseburger and milkshake

a little bit more than the conditions of character in

an artist According to the explanation above the author did

use the authority a week's Now that we know is

either the only right answer or part of the writing

of certain we can eliminate answer Eat b s about

parallel construction Well again referring to the holy grail of

syntax parallel construction is the repetition of the same pattern

of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to

show that two or more ideas have the same level

of importance Great So what does that mean Well a

quick and easy example would be the demands that toddler

might make of his older brother or sister In fact

the older sibling might want to add the parallel construction

with the demand of our own But unfortunately not typically

appreciative of such Anyway Getting back to the passing the

author uses the phrase we desire three times and in

each case is to give the same level of importance

to a new concept the author is interested in finding

so again according to a grand rulebook of syntax the

author is using parallel construction now the beautiful thing about

this discovery is that we now have two answers that

are accurate which means we can safely assume that the

correct answer is b lucky us Now we don't have

to bother learning that unnatural is the repetition of a

word or phrase at the beginning of success of klaus

Nor do we Have to learn about how abraham lincoln

used a naff ra in the gettysburg address Uh well

i guess we just did some extra work It's Okay

though we love extra worked here in months like four

score and seven years ago we started this question Shmoop