choose the sentence that contains parallel elements. coach said we could have beaten that team, but it had…

choose the sentence that contains parallel elements. coach said we could have beaten that team, but it had played with more heart. coach said we lost the game because our hitting was sloppy and our fielding was slow. we were all tired and had been angry after we lost the championship game.

choose the sentence that contains parallel elements. coach said we could have beaten that team, but it had played with more heart. coach said we lost the game because our hitting was sloppy and our fielding was slow. we were all tired and had been angry after we lost the championship game.

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Brief Explanations:

Parallelism involves using similar grammatical structures in a sentence. In "Coach said we lost the game because our hitting was sloppy and our fielding was slow", "our hitting was sloppy" and "our fielding was slow" have the same structure (noun - was - adjective). The first option doesn't have parallel elements. In the third option, "were all tired" (simple past) and "had been angry" (past perfect) have different verb - tense structures and thus are not parallel.

Answer:

Coach said we lost the game because our hitting was sloppy and our fielding was slow.