Parallelism: Correlative Pairs From the UWF Writing Lab’s Grammar Mini-Lessons Series Mini-Lesson #75.

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Parallelism: Correlative Pairs From the UWF Writing Lab’s Grammar Mini-Lessons Series Mini-Lesson #75

Items in a series should be balanced or coordinated; that is, to indicate the same rank and role of items in a series or to indicate equality of these ideas, writers of standard written English must employ parallel grammatical constructions. In order to ensure that these are grammatically similar, the writer conveys his or her message in parallel language. Some writers make a construction appear to be parallel when actually it is not by incorrectly mixing the parts of correlative pairs.

 Correlative pair is neither… nor.  Incorrect: I readily admitted that I had neither interest or need for this seminar  Correct: I readily admitted that I had neither interest nor need for this seminar.  Correlative pair is not only… but also.  Incorrect: The Beatles were talented not only as performers but as composers.  Correct: The Beatles were talented not only as composers but also as composers.

Frequently Used Correlative Conjunctions  Both… and  Either… or  Just as… so  Neither… nor  Not only… but also  Whether… or