Writing Tip 3: Parallel Structures — What Are They?

Parallel structure means every item in a list, and every side of a comparison, is built from the same grammatical part — noun with noun, verb with verb, phrase with phrase.

What you will learn

• What parallel structure means, and why breaking it makes a sentence feel ‘lopsided’ rather than wrong
• The one-line test: find the shared stem, then check every branch is the same part of speech
• How to fix a broken list or comparison once you’ve spotted the mismatch

Free, self-paced, one sitting. Finish the quiz and you get a certificate.

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