The company offers special college training

to help hourly employees move into professional

careers like engineering management, software
development, service technicians, and sales
trainees.

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 The company offers special college training
to help hourly employees move into professional
careers like engineering management, software
development, service technicians, and sales
trainees.

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 The company offers special college training
to help hourly employees move into professional
careers like engineering management, software
development, technical services, and sales.

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 FAULTY
PARALLELISM
Faulty parallelism is a
construction in which two or
more parts of a sentence are
equivalent in meaning but
not grammatically similar in
form.
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 PROPER PARALLELISM
STRUCTURE
When you come across faulty
parallelism, it clangs off the ear, destroys
written sentences, and the writer didn’t
make his meaning clear.

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 PROPER PARALLELISM
STRUCTURE
When you come across faulty
parallelism, it clangs off the ear, destroys
written sentences, and muddies any
intention the author may have had.

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FAULTY PARALLELISM IN LISTS
1. We defined our purpose.
2. Who is our audience?
3. What should we do?
4. Discuss findings.
5. Our conclusions.
6. Finally, recommendations.

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FAULTY PARALLELISM IN LISTS
1. Define purpose.
2. Analyze audience.
3. Determine methodology.
4. Discuss findings.
5. Draw conclusions.
6. Make recommendations.

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PARALLEL
WORDS

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 My favorite activities are
swimming, skating, writing, and
to read (story books).

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 My favorite activities are
swimming, skating, writing, and
reading.

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PARALLEL
PHRASES

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 He warned me to revise
my essays and that I should pay
close attention to spellings.

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 He warned me to revise
my essays and to pay close
attention to spellings.

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PARALLEL
CLAUSES

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 The coach told the players
that they should get a lot of sleep,
that they should not eat too much,
and to do some warm-up exercises
before game.

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 The coach told the players
that they should get a lot of sleep,
not eat too much, do some warm-up
exercises before game.

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 USING
PARALLELIS
M
CREATING PARALLELISM USING
COORDINATING CONJUCTIONS

When I walk the dog, I like to listen to

music and talking to friends on the phone.

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CREATING PARALLELISM USING
COORDINATING CONJUCTIONS

When I walk the dog, I like listening

to music and talking to friends on the
phone.

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CREATING PARALLELISM USING
“THAN” OR “AS”

Swimming in the ocean is much

tougher than a pool.

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CREATING PARALLELISM USING
“THAN” OR “AS”

Swimming in the ocean is much

tougher than swimming in a pool.

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CREATING PARALLELISM USING
CORRELATIVE CONJUCTIONS

We can neither wait for something to

happen nor can we take evasive action.

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CREATING PARALLELISM USING
CORRELATIVE CONJUCTIONS

We can neither wait for something to

happen nor take evasive action.

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