1. PARALLELISM

2. DEFINITION
PARALLEL: “HAVING EVENLY MATCHED PARTS (EX. PARALLEL BARS THAT A GYMNASTIC USES” (Anker, 447).

3. PARALLELISM DEFINED
PARALLISM: “IS WRITING THAT SIMILAR PARTS IN A SENTENCE HAVE THE SAME STRUCTURE.” PRONOUNS WITH PRONOUNS AND VERBS WITH VERBS ( Anker, 497).

4. NOT PARALLEL (PP497)
I ENJOY PINBALL MUCH MORE THAN PLAYING VIDEO GAMES.
ON OUR ANNIVERSARY,WE ATE, DANCED, AND WERE SINGING.

5. PARALLEL I ENJOY PINBALL MUCH MORE THAN VIDEO GAMES.
On our anniversary, we ate, danced, and sang.

6. PARALLELISM IN PAIRS AND LISTS (PP498)
Example: The criminal conspiracy involved a lawyer and an assistant from the mayors office.
Definition: “When you present two or more items in a series joined by the words and or or, use a similar form for each item.”

7. PARALLELISM IN COMPARISONS(PP499)
EXAMPLE: DRIVING DOWNTOWN IS AS FAST AS TAKING THE BUS.
DEFINITION: ‘COMPARISION OFTEN USES THE WORDS THAN OR AS WHEN COMPARING TWO THINGS.”

8. PARALLELISM WITH CERTAIN PAIRED WORDS (PP501)
DEFINITION:
“WHEN A SENTENCE USES CERTAIN PAIRED WORDS CALLED CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS THE ITEMS JOINED BY THEM MUST BE PARALLEL.”
EXAMPLES: NEITHER…NOR
RATHER…THAN
EITHER…OR
NOT ONLY…BUT ALSO
BOTH…AND

9. “Completing Sentences With Paired Words”
Example: “I am both impressed by your company and enthusiastic to work for you.”
“Edit each sentence by completing the correlative conjunction and adding more information. Make sure that the structures on both sides of the correlative conjunction are parallel.

10. REVIEW 1) PARALLELISM IN WRITING MEANS THAT____________
2) IN WHAT THREE SITUATIONS DO PROBLEMS WITH PARALLELISM MOST OFTEN OCCUR? _______________
3) WHAT ARE THREE PAIRS OF CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS?___________________