Writing Academic English 4th Edition

Using Parallel Structures

and Fixing Sentence

Proble1TIs

BreadsealofGaza,Israel

Inthischapter,youwilllearntouseparallelstructuretoaddsymmetryandstyleto
yoursentences.Youwill alsolearntorecognizeandrepaircommon sentence
problems:fragments,run-ons,commasplices,choppy,andstringysentences.

ParallelismisanimportantelementinEnglishwriting,especiallywhenyouarelist-

ingandcomparingandcontrastingitemsorideas.Parallelismmeansthateachitem

ina listorcomparisonfollows thesamegrammaticalpattern.Ifyouarewritinga

listandthefirstiteminyourlistisa noun,writeallthefollowingitemsas nouns

also.Ifthefirstitemisan-ingword,makealltheothers-ingwords;ifitisanadverb

clause,makealltheothersadverbclauses.

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