Read the following sentence from Claribel Alegria's “Granny and the Golden Bridge” and answer the question. After the civil war started, the army stationed troop units at either end of the bridge to protect it and to control traffic crossing it.

Which type of parallel structure is used in this excerpt?

to compare and contrast ideas
to balance independent clauses in a sentence
to link two dependent clauses
to balance phrases

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.

greywater is gently used water from your bathroom sinks, showers, tubs, and washing machines. it is not water that has come into contact with feces, either from the toilet or from washing diapers. greywater may contain traces of dirt, food, grease, hair, and certain household cleaning products.

1. ghosts

2. why we are alive

3. what happens when we die

4. how was earth made and who developed it?

5. how is air made?