Recognizing Parallel Structure: For each of the following passages, identify the answer choice that is an example of correct parallel structure. - 1. About one hundred years ago, in 1895, the first movie was invented. Although the movie was short, soundless, and plotless, people still found it astounding.

Recognizing Parallel Structure: For each of the following passages, identify the answer choice that is an example of correct parallel structure. - 2. The Lumière brothers in France filmed a sort of documentary, The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station. Audience members both gasped at the realism and leaped out of the way. They thought the train would actually run them over.

Recognizing Parallel Structure: For each of the following passages, identify the answer choice that is an example of correct parallel structure. - 3. My great-grandmother Emma said she saw a film in about 1910. It showed a woman terrified by something flying up out of the stove. Then the woman yells and tosses up the lid.

Recognizing Parallel Structure: For each of the following passages, identify the answer choice that is an example of correct parallel structure. - 4. Emma found the documentary not only realistic but also terrifying. The shortness of the film did not make any difference to her.

Recognizing Parallel Structure: For each of the following passages, identify the answer choice that is an example of correct parallel structure. - 5. As time went by, movies added length, sound, and color. I suppose these were great improvements. But sometimes I would rather watch one of the early films.