topic:

FAULTY
PARALLELISM
D E F I N I T I O N :
Is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence
are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in
form. By contrast, proper parallelism "is the placement of
equal ideas in words, phrases, or clauses of similar types,".
Properly crafted sentences match nouns with nouns, verbs
with verbs, and phrases or clauses with similarly-constructed
phrases or clauses. This will ensure that your sentences read
smoothly, that the reader hones in on your meaning, and
that they are not distracted by inequal parts.
SPECIFICALLY,
FAULTY
PARALLELISM
MEANS THAT
ELEMENTS IN A
SERIES DON'T MATCH
EXAMPLES:
THE BEST WAY TO LEARN
WHAT FAULTY The company offers special college training to help hourly employees
PARALLELISM IS move into professional careers like engineering management,
software development, service technicians, and sales trainees.
AND HOW TO CORRECT IT
IS TO FOCUS ON AN
EXAMPLE Notice the faulty comparison of occupations ("engineering
management" and "software development") to people ("service
technicians" and "sales trainees"). To avoid faulty parallelism, make
certain that each element in a series is similar in form and structure
to all others in the same series, as this corrected sentence
demonstrates:

The company offers special college training to help hourly employees

move into professional careers like engineering management,
software development, technical services, and sales.

Note that all of the items in the series — engineering management,

software development, technical services, and sales — are now all
the same because they are all examples of occupations.
HOW TO IDENTIFY FAULTY
PARALLELISM
T H E R E A R E S E V E R A L T Y P E S O F
F A U L T Y P A R A L L E L I S M :

Coordinating conjunction errors

Elements in a list or series
Elements being compared
Elements connected by linking verbs
Correlative conjunction errors
EXERCISES
COORDINATING
CONJUNCTION ERROR:

FAULTY

I plan on buying a house and to purchase

a new car.
 CORRECT CORRECT
I plan to buy a house and I plan on buying a house
to purchase a new car. and purchasing a new

car.
ELEMENTS IN A LIST OR
SERIES:

FAULTY

The performing arts school will teach

students singing, acting, and how to
dance.
 CORRECT CORRECT
The performing arts school The performing arts
will teach students singing, school will teach students
acting, and dancing. how to sing, act, and

dance
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