Parallel Structure
By: Hannah Green
Parallel Structure
EX A. They went TO London, TO Rome and TO Paris.
-TO is repeated
EX B. He wanted TO walk out, TO get in his car and drive forever, TO leave and never come back.
-TO and AND is repeated
Parallelism is a repetition of structure
A. EX:
NOT: She likes ball games, hikes and going to picnics.
BUT: She likes ball games, hike and picnics.
-Look for the common Denominator
-A parallelism do not say the same thing in different words. The repetition is a repetition of STRUCTURE.
-Whenever a sentence contains two or more similar elements, these elements must be kept parallel, no matter how small they are.