Question

Walt Whitman was an American poet, journalist, and he also wrote essays.

Which revision most effectively corrects the faulty parallelism in the sentence?

1. Walt Whitman, an American, not only wrote poetry but also essays and newspaper stories.
2. American Walt Whitman wrote poetry as well as writing for newspapers and essays.
3. Walt Whitman was an American poet, journalist, and essayist.
4. American poet Walt Whitman wrote for newspapers and also essays.

Answer 1

3. Walt Whitman was an American poet, journalist, and essayist.

Parallelism is the repetition of the same grammatical structure in a list of corresponding ideas. In the original sentence the author begins Walt Whitman's career titles as nouns, and then changes the last one to an independent clause. To fix the problem, the independent clause needs to change to a noun that means "he wrote essays." An author of essays is an essayist. This is the correct revision to create appropriate parallelism.

Answer 2

"Walt Whitman was an American poet, journalist, and essayist" is the one among the following revisions that most effectively corrects the faulty parallelism in the sentence. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the third option or option "C". I hope the answer helps you.