Malika is writing an essay about "Sleeping." Which of the following introductions reflects the correct comma and semicolon use: The short story “Sleeping”, by Katherine Weber has an appropriate title because it applies to the characters in different ways. One can see this through the symbolism of Mr. And Mrs. Winter’s last name, Charles, (the sleeping baby) and Harriet’s inexperience and ignorance.

The short story, “Sleeping” by Katharine Weber, has an appropriate title because it applies to the characters in different ways; one can see this through the symbolism of Mr. and Mrs. Winters’ last name, Charles (the sleeping baby), and Harriet’s inexperience and ignorance.

The short story, “Sleeping” by Katharine Weber has an appropriate title because it applies to the characters in different ways, one can see this through the symbolism of Mr. and Mrs. Winters’ last name, Charles (the sleeping baby), and Harriet’s inexperience and ignorance.

The short story, “Sleeping”, by Katharine Weber, has an appropriate title because it applies to the characters in different ways, one can see this through the symbolism of Mr. and Mrs. Winters’ last name, Charles (the sleeping baby), and Harriet’s inexperience, and ignorance.

The short story, “Sleeping” by Katharine Weber, has an appropriate title because it applies to the characters in different ways; one can see this through the symbolism of Mr. and Mrs. Winters’ last name, Charles (the sleeping baby), and Harriet’s inexperience and ignorance.

Explanation:

The only option that contains a semicolon is the second one. The semicolon is a punctuation mark used to connect two independent clauses that are closely related in thought. This is the cause in the given sentence.

In the third and fourth sentences, these two clauses are connected only by a comma, which makes them grammatically incorrect. This type of mistake is called a comma splice. It can be corrected by adding a conjunction or changing the comma into a semicolon.

The first sentence is the second-best one. There is no semicolon here, but it would be grammatically correct to put a period between these clauses. However, a comma after the word story is omitted, and another one is misplaced - there shouldn't be a comma after the world Charles, but there should be one after the parentheses.

This is why the second option is the correct one.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

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

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents 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 both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

a is the indefinite article