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Grammar and Style
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Grammar and Style

by Mark Peters
February 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
352 pages
6h 29m
English
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CHAPTER13

Maintaining Parallel Structure

In This Chapter

  • Making your writing clear with parallel structure
  • How parallel structure helps you write a series
  • Using parallelism to compare and contrast
  • Using parallelism to make a memorable statement

There are many ways to make your writing sound smooth and polished. You can read your work aloud. You can spend sufficient time editing. You can use appropriate word choices and strong verbs. As this chapter discusses, you can also use parallelism.

Parallelism is a way of structuring your sentences that makes them sound clean and clear. Notice that I didn’t write, “Parallelism is a way of structuring ...

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ISBN: 9781615644407