College Composition / Unit 6 CMP 0132 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Parallel Structure
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The idea
Parallelism means giving related ideas the same grammatical form, which creates balance and makes them easier to remember.
In practice
Items joined by and or or, or compared in a pair, should match: nouns with nouns, phrases with phrases, clauses with clauses.
Where people slip
Faulty parallelism is a frequent revision item, because one item usually sounds acceptable alone.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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