1. Today’s Standard Sentence Structure 1.2
Identify and use parallelism, including similar grammatical forms, in all written discourse to present items in a series and items juxtaposed for emphasis.

2. Who knows what juxtaposed means?
To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
Example: We are either skiing in Utah or snorkeling in Hawaii over winter break.
The underlined items are juxtaposed.

3. Parallelism:
Making all component parts of items in a sentence “equal” and therefore balanced.
Example (not parallel):
When I grow up I want to become a writer, will go on lots of trips, loving my life and freedom.
How could you change this sentence so that the underlined portions are equal and balanced?

4. Example (parallel):
When I grow up I want to become a writer, travel the world, and enjoy my life and freedom.
three verb phrases in future tense.

5. Example (not parallel):
Johnathon is an athlete, out-going, and making straight A’s.
This sentence has a noun, an adjective and a verb phrase.
How would you make this sentence parallel?

6. Examples (parallel):
Johnathon is athletic, out-going, and studious.
Three adjectives
Johnathon is an athlete, an out-going person, and a straight A student.
Three nouns in a series.
Johnathon plays sports, socializes with everyone, and makes great grades.
Three verb phrases.