1. Parallelism
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2. What is parallelism?
Parallelism means that similar parts of a sentence have the same structure: nouns are with nouns, verbs with verbs, and phrases with phrases.
NOT PARALLEL: I like singing, kayaking, and to dance.
PARALLEL: I like singing, kayaking, and dancing.
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3. Make sure to use parallelism in the following cases:
When joining two or more items with and or or:
The party featured a four-foot cake and a singing gorilla.
In comparisons:
Taking the train is as fast as driving.
With certain paired words (like both/and, either/or, and neither/nor):
Marlize both bakes bread and fixes cars.
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4. Make the following sentence parallel:
Ella’s job responsibilities include to hire, training, and informing workers of company policies.
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5. Answer:
Ella’s job responsibilities include hiring, training, and informing workers of company policies.
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6. Make the following sentence parallel: (continued 1)
Henry likes pizza more than eating spinach.
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7. Answer: (continued 1) Henry likes pizza more than spinach.
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8. Make the following sentence parallel: (continued 2)
I think that learning a new language is harder than math.
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9. Answer: (continued 2)
I think that learning a new language is harder than learning math.
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10. Make the following sentence parallel: (continued 3)
The film had many stars, used various special effects, and it was violent.
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11. Answer: (continued 3)
The film had many stars, used various special effects, and featured violence.
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12. Make the following sentence parallel: (continued 4)
I’d rather be lucky or hardworking than to have talent.
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13. Answer: (continued 4)
I’d rather be lucky or hardworking than talented.
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14. Make the following sentence parallel: (continued 5)
That football team has both a good offense and it has a good defense.
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15. Answer: (continued 5)
That football team has both a good offense and a good defense.
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16. Editing for Parallelism
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