What is a Parallel Structure?

Answer 1

Processed food are bad for your lifestyle, your complexion, and your health.

Answer 2

Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. This can happen at the word, phrase, or clause level. The usual way to join parallel structures is with the use of coordinating conjunction's such as "and" or "or."

Answer 3

I spend the weekend working in the yard, painting a door, and to fix a cracked window

Answer 4

When two or more ideas are given equal weight and grammatical structure in a sentence Parallel structure (also called parallelism) is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. By making each compared item or idea in your sentence follow the same grammatical pattern, you create a parallel construction.

Answer 5

A parallel structure is using repetition of words to demonstrate equal importance in a sentence. When you use the same grammatical pattern in your sentence to compare ideas, you make a parallel construction.

Answer 6

Parallel structured sentences means that two or more sentences are worded in the same way.

A perfect example resides in Martin Luther King, Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech:

"Let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring."

Answer 7

The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases.

Answer 8

Parallel structure is a list of actions or items. This is used in schools.

Answer 9

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