ENG100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 44: Hemu, Ruter
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Parallelism: presentation of equal ideas in the same grammatical form o. Increases the clarity and impact of writing: example on page 817. Faulty parallelism: occurs when items in a series, paired or contrasting items, or items in a list do not have the same grammatical form. Occurs in the following situations: o o o. In sentences that present equivalent items in a series. In sentences that pair equivalent items with a conjunction, or contrast them with a comparative expression. In outlines and headings, and in numbered and bulleted lists. Edit faulty parallelism: make items in a series parallel. A list or series of equally important items should be parallel in grammatical structure. Phrases should balance phrases, clauses should balance clauses. When you join ideas with a conjunction or distinguish between them with a comparative expression, you should word them in parallel form: pairing ideas with coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet)
