Question #N391
The following text is from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. The narrator is being driven in a carriage through a remote region at night. The baying of the wolves sounded nearer and nearer, as though they were closing round on us from every side. I grew dreadfully afraid, and the horses shared my fear. The driver, however, was not in the least disturbed; he kept turning his head to left and right, but I could not see anything through the darkness. Which choice best maintains the parallel structure of the sentence?
Which choice best maintains the parallel structure of the sentence?Correct Answer is: B
The original sentence uses a semicolon to separate two independent clauses, but the semicolon should not be used in the same sentence as a conjunction. The conjunction "and" and the verb "kept" match the verb tense of the first clause, "was not."