Can you give a sentence that illustrates good parallel structure?

Answer 1

I walked to the mall. I jumped on the escalator. I ran in the store. Those are about as parallel as it gets because the subjects, verbs (past participles), and prepositional phrases are in the same place in each sentence. In addition, they are about the same length and they incorporate anaphora, a literary device in which one begins each sentence with the same word. A more cryptic instance of parallelism: "The night was dark and very few could see. Then a girl stepped quietly, but every creature had heard." It's much more subtle, but the subject is essentially in the same place and adverbs/auxiliary verbs and regular verbs are parallel to each other, as well as conjunctions. "Girl" is to "night" where as "and" is to "but" and "could" is to "had." "Was" is to "stepped." The only slight difference in the structure is the article "a" in the second sentence. Articles generally do not have a profound effect on parallelism.