Co-ordinating units of writing must all be of the same grammatical kind. This is what is referred to as preserving parallel structure. For instance, nouns must match with nouns, adjectives with ...

WE saw in the preceding four parts of this series that the consistent use of parallel grammatical structures is the key to more readable, more forceful, and more polished sentences. We also learned ...

PARALLEL construction is one of the most powerful tools for organizing and presenting ideas in writing. Indeed, it cannot be overemphasized that making sentences grammatically and semantically correct ...

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THE mark of good writers is their ability to set their ideas in parallel, not simply the richness of their thoughts and the depth of their grammar knowhow. They can competently construct sentences by ...