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Spot the error: ‘The guy cut the grass, trimmed the flowers, and the house was swept’
In the context of faulty parallelism, the topic we started discussing last week, spot the error in this sentence: The guy cut ...
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How to avoid faulty parallelism
There is an error in each of the following sentences. Let’s quickly study them and identify the problems. She sells oranges, mangoes and apple. We enjoyed eating, swimming and to play table tennis.
Faulty parallels come up in my editing work all the time, but I have yet to see a better example than a line from the movie “Rain Man.” In the 1988 film, Raymond, an autistic savant played by Dustin ...
Co-ordinating units of writing must all be of the same grammatical kind. This is what is referred to as preserving parallel structure. For instance, nouns must match with nouns, adjectives with ...
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