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You must read each slide, and complete any questions on the slide, in sequence.
Exercise S1-2
Parallelism
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In each pair, click on the sentence that does not contain errors in parallelism.
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Example
1 of 5
Correct. The three noun phrases are parallel:
fishing trips, dance lessons, computer classes.
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S1.
Sorry.
Computers is not parallel with
fishing trips and
dance lessons.
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S1.
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2 of 5
Correct. The infinitives
to remain and
to set up are parallel.
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Sorry. The infinitive
to remain is not parallel with the
-ing form
setting up.
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S1.
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3 of 5
Correct. The adjective phrase following
not only is parallel with the adjective phrase following
but also: too steep . . . too narrow.
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Sorry. The elements following
not only and
but also are not parallel:
too steep . . . were too narrow.
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S1.
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4 of 5
Correct. For parallelism, the preposition
from is repeated following
than.
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Sorry. For parallelism, the preposition
from should be repeated following
than.
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5 of 5
Correct. The sentence contains a series consisting of parallel verb phrases:
gathered . . . , put in . . . , arranged . . . , added . . . , tossed in . . . .For more help, see section
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Sorry. For parallelism, the sentence contains a series of verb phrases, but the last item in the series—
a battery-powered hair dryer—is not a verb phrase.
For more help, see section
S1.
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