1. Parallelism in slides Maintain parallelism in design
linguistic structure

2. Parallelism in linguistic structure (1)
Repetition of linguistic patterns
Good mothers, great moms
(Adjective + noun, adjective + noun)
Cows moo and horses neigh
(Noun + verb, noun + verb)

3. Parallelism in linguistic structure (2)
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you,
Cry and you cry alone
Imperative
Verb + conjunction + noun (phrase) + verb + adverbial phrase

4. Linguistic parallelism in bulleted lists
Present key ideas,
avoid excessive detail
Use key words
Maintain parallelism in
titles
bulleted lists
Verb (phrase) +
noun (phrase)
noun (phrase)

5. Activity Study the following slides, and
comment on whether there is parallelism in the language used.
suggest improvements you would make.

6. Computers in the office
Used for
Management of records
Analysis of data
Preparing documents (reports, letters, etc.)
Managing information (e.g., adding, updating, deleting information and retrieving information)

7. Uses of computers
Computers are used where there is a lot of data to be manipulated
Complex tasks must be managed
We need to have real-time access information from geographically distant locations