Read the excerpt from act iii of the importance of being earnest. [gwendolen and cecily are at the window, looking out into the garden.] gwendolen. the fact that they did not follow us at once into the house, as any one else would have done, seems to me to show that they have some sense of shame left. cecily. they have been eating muffins. that looks like repentance. what do you learn about gwendolen and cecily from this excerpt? they value honesty and are angry that the men have lied to them. they value romance and are willing to make excuses for the men they love. they value wisdom and refuse to admit that they were wrong. they value commitment and are willing to marry anyone who will marry them.

The second option is the right answer.

Explanation:

In Oscar Wilde's play, at the end of act 2 Jack confesses that he has never had a brother Ernest and that he has not the smallest intention of having neither Cecily nor Gwendolen in the future. Humorously, Gwendoleen and Cecily at the window, looking out into the garden see their action of eating muffins as a demonstartion of repentance and shame for what they have said and done which indeed these men do not feel at all. In reality the women are making excuses for the men they love in spite of their unmannerly behaviour towards Cecily and Gwendolen.

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have a basic subject+verb+object structure.

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

this is incorrect

explanation:

this is false