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Which of the follwing sentences is an example of a writer's use of faulty parallelism? 1) I like eating charbroiled oysters, making chicken gumbo, and baking french bread when I am in New Orleans. 2) Although they are not my favorites, I have eaten okra, beets, and rutabages ​

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Number one. “and baking French bread when I am in New Orleans” is faulty parallelism. Baking in New Orleans has nothing to do with then main idea, which is what (I) likes eating.
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