Using Parallel Structure: For the following sentences, choose the answer that achieves parallel structure while maintaining the sentence’s meaning. - The first beauty pageants in the United States featured women wearing bathing suits and they posed at the seaside.
Using Parallel Structure: For the following sentences, choose the answer that achieves parallel structure while maintaining the sentence’s meaning. - In the 1920s, many Americans felt that women who put themselves on display in a beauty contest were not moral, decent, and could not be respected.
Using Parallel Structure: For the following sentences, choose the answer that achieves parallel structure while maintaining the sentence’s meaning. - Many young women who participated in early Miss America contests wanted either to win a Hollywood film contract or they hoped for a career on the stage.
Using Parallel Structure: For the following sentences, choose the answer that achieves parallel structure while maintaining the sentence’s meaning. - Lenora Slaughter, who was hired by Miss America pageant promoters in 1935, added a talent competition, persuaded society women to act as chaperones for the contestants, and she convinced sponsors to offer the winners college scholarships.
Using Parallel Structure: For the following sentences, choose the answer that achieves parallel structure while maintaining the sentence’s meaning. - Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945, was not only the first scholarship winner but also she was the first Jewish Miss America.
Using Parallel Structure: For the following sentences, choose the answer that achieves parallel structure while maintaining the sentence’s meaning. - In the 1930s, pageant rules required contestants to be young, single, and they had to be white.
Using Parallel Structure: For the following sentences, choose the answer that achieves parallel structure while maintaining the sentence’s meaning. - Until the 1970s, neither the pageant’s finalists nor were any of the contestants African American or Latina.
Using Parallel Structure: For the following sentences, choose the answer that achieves parallel structure while maintaining the sentence’s meaning. - Vanessa Williams’s victory in 1983 was historic both because she was the first African American winner and no previous winner had to resign after a scandal.
Using Parallel Structure: For the following sentences, choose the answer that achieves parallel structure while maintaining the sentence’s meaning. - Williams may be the best-known Miss America, but she has made her name more as an actress and singer than by being the winner of the Miss America pageant.
Using Parallel Structure: For the following sentences, choose the answer that achieves parallel structure while maintaining the sentence’s meaning. - Pageant promoters emphasize that Miss America must have brains and be talented, but even brilliant contestants will not advance very far if they have extra pounds or unconventional looks.