Which sentence has an error in parallel structure? a) why don't you just sit down, shut up, and let someone else take over the meeting? b) the director was looking for a girl who could do action, comedy, and romance--preferably all at the same time. c) jane could never understand why her boyfriend left, why he didn't leave a note, and why she could never keep a boyfriend. d) whenever mary cooks cookies, she also eats half the dough, scalds the bottoms of the cookies, and she never cleans up her mess.

1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.