Use parallel form to present items as a pair or in a series.
| PAIR | Imagine that you and your daughter are walking in the mall or eating in a popular restaurant. |
| SERIES | By implementing this proposal, administrators could enhance the reputation of the university with quality publications, plays, concerts, and sports teams. |
| SERIES OF PHRASES | An interruption has the potential to disrupt turns at talk, to disorganize the topic of conversation, and to violate the current speaker’s right to talk. |
The grammatical similarity of the items in the pair or series strongly signals to the reader that they are equally important, similar in meaning, and related in the same way to the rest of the sentence.