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Sentence Skills: A Workbook for Sentence Skills: A Workbook for Writers, Form BWriters, Form B

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Faulty ParallelismFaulty Parallelism

Sentence Skills, Form B, 8E

Parallelism

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UsingUsing ParallelismParallelism• All items listing two or more words, phrases, or clauses, need

to be written in the same grammatical structure. For For exampleexample, , balance a noun with a noun, a balance a noun with a noun, a phrase with a phrase, a clause with a clause.phrase with a phrase, a clause with a clause.

Revision:Revision: Many people are interested in Many people are interested in combat when they combat when they read about it at home, study about it in school, or , or watch it on television.

Many people are interested in combat Many people are interested in combat when they when they read about it at home, study about it in school, or , or watching it on television..

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Parallelism

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Use ParallelismUse ParallelismBy balancingbalancing the items in a sentence,

you will make the sentence clearer and easier to read.

Ex.: Ex.: My job includes My job includes checking inventory, checking inventory, initialing orders, and to call initialing orders, and to call the suppliers. the suppliers. callingcalling

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Parallelism

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Checking for ParallelismChecking for Parallelism• Check items listed in a

series.– Use a parallel Use a parallel

grammatical structure grammatical structure for all items.for all items.

• Check places where coordinating coordinating conjunctionsconjunctions are used.

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Parallelism

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One Note

worry about balancing sentences when you’re writing your first draft.

Instead, look for faulty parallelism when you

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Parallelism

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Parallelism Review ExercisesParallelism Review Exercises

• In the 18th century, Franz Mesmer treated patients by using iron magnets and hypnosis.

CorrectCorrect

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Parallelism

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Parallelism Review ExercisesParallelism Review Exercises

• People accused him of being a magician and that he was a fraud.

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Parallelism

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Parallelism Review ExercisesParallelism Review Exercises

• People accused him of being a magician and a fraud.

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Parallelism

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Parallelism Review ExercisesParallelism Review Exercises

• Today hypnosis is used in dentistry, in obstetrics, and when having minor surgery.

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Parallelism

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Parallelism Review ExercisesParallelism Review Exercises

• Today hypnosis is used in dentistry, in obstetrics, and in minor surgery.

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Parallelism

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• Under hypnotic trance, the depressed patient may learn to assign positive feelings to past loss or learn to put the loss behind him and resume his life.

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Parallelism

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• However, hypnotic subjects can readily confuse events that really happened with imaginary events.

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Parallelism

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Parallelism Review ExercisesParallelism Review Exercises

• However, hypnotic subjects can readily confuse real events with imaginary events.

CorrectCorrect

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Parallelism

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Parallelism Review ExercisesParallelism Review Exercises

• Fear, stress, and feeling anxious seem to be factors in increasing physiological pain.

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Parallelism

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Parallelism Review ExercisesParallelism Review Exercises

• Fear, stress, and anxiety seem to be factors in increasing physiological pain.

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Parallelism

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• Hypnosis can quiet the mind by slowing heart rates, lowering respiration rates, and it reduces blood pressure.

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Parallelism Review ExercisesParallelism Review Exercises

• Hypnosis can quiet the mind by slowing heart rates, lowering respiration, and reducing blood pressure.

CorrectCorrect

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Sentence Skills, Form B, 8E