UCWR 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Adjective Phrase, Adverbial Phrase, Exemplum
30 Sep 2016
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Sentences are easier to read when closely related ideas within them follow similar language patterns, subjects, objects, verbs, modifiers, phrases, and clauses can be structured to show such a relationship, called parallelism. When words or phrases come in pairs or triplets, they usually need to be parallel. Each element must have the same form: a noun phrase, an adjective or adjective phrase, an adverb or adverb phrase comparison/contrast correlative constructions. Particularly necessary in comparison following as and then . The city council is as likely to adopt the measure as vetoing it. The city council is as likely to adopt the measure as to veto it. These include the following correlative constructions: not only but also, either or neither nor, both and, on one hand on the other hand . On the one hand, interest rates might be tightened; on the other hand, prices might be increased.
