For each passage below, identify the answer choice that is an example of correct parallel structure.
For help with this exercise, see section 19a of Focus on Reading and Writing.
About one hundred years ago, in 1895, the first movie was invented. Although the movie was short, soundless, and plotless, people still found it astounding.
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The Lumière brothers in France filmed a sort of documentary, The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station. Audience members both gasped at the realism and leaped out of the way. They thought the train would actually run them over.
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My great-grandmother Emma said she saw a film in about 1910. It showed a woman terrified by something flying up out of the stove. Then the woman yells and tosses up the lid.
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Emma found the documentary not only realistic but also terrifying. The shortness of the film did not make any difference to her.
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As time went by, movies added length, sound, and color. I suppose these were great improvements. But sometimes I would rather watch one of the early films.
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