Making items in a series parallel

All items in a series should be in parallel form—all nouns, all prepositional phrases, all adverb clauses, and so on. Such parallelism makes a series graceful and easy to follow.

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Items in a list should be parallel.

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Items on a formal outline and headings in a paper should be parallel. The headings in this chapter, for example, use parallel phrases.

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