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AP English Language: Identifying Grammatically Parallel Words 8 Views


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Which of the following words is most grammatically parallel to "faculty" (line 23)?


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Okay More ap langer larne in foryou question Which of

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the following words is most grammatically parallel to faculty Here

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we go Science said the royal commission of eighteen sixty

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one quickens and cultivates directly the faculty of observation the

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faculty of observation We're saying it twice for emphasis there

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which in very many persons lies almost dormant through life

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The power of inaccurate rap generalization of mental other women

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you know together Okay well after removing the superfluous adjectives

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and there's a lot of flowery language in this thing

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Faculty of observation power of generalization and habit of method

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and arrangement are all dramatically similar Making power parallel toe

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faculty right A lot of faculty a lot of power

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So observation a method e and generalization d are all

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parallel to each other kind of the same thing but

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not too far Faculty right dormant b acts directly opposite

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to faculty but well that doesn't count So the answer

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is c power right there in line twenty four and

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