Mastering Parallelism in Grammar for Clear Communication
Understand the concept of parallelism, learn how to apply it correctly in your writing, and discover examples to improve your sentences. Ensure consistency in noun, verb, adjective, phrase, or clause structures for enhanced clarity and effectiveness.
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PARALLELISM Utilizing consistent grammatical structures
What is Parallelism? Parallelism is the use of the same structure in a list of two or more items. We must use matching grammatical structures. Incorrect Example: I love cooking, swimming, and to read. Correct Example: I love cooking, swimming, and reading.
Examples Nouns: I like to read books, magazines, and blogs. Verb forms: Over the weekend I read, swam, and hiked. Adjectives: It is cloudy, windy, and cold today. Phrases or clauses: Martina cares about her professional life as much as she cares about her social life.
Check and Correct Marta s daughter, Fran, adores math, grammar, and practicing spelling. She loves reading, writing, and to doing math problems. She is both talented and has motivated. For Fran, reading is more fun than to playing outside. Fran cares about her grades as much as she cares about her friends. Correct!
Summary Sentences require parallel structure Series of two or more nouns, verbs, adjectives, phrases, or clauses Correct parallelism Rephrase sentences Check to be sure grammatical structures are matching
