PARALLEL construction is one of the most powerful tools for organizing and presenting ideas in writing. Indeed, it cannot be overemphasized that making sentences grammatically and semantically correct ...

IN the first five parts of this series, we reviewed the various ways of achieving parallelism when constructing sentences. We saw how using the same function words can match and balance the clauses ...

Modifiers are describing phrases or clauses which support or tell more about your idea. Therefore, they have to be placed next to what they modify. Misplaced Modifers: Dangling modifiers are those ...

WE saw in the preceding four parts of this series that the consistent use of parallel grammatical structures is the key to more readable, more forceful, and more polished sentences. We also learned ...

THE MARK of good writers is not simply the richness of their ideas and knowledge of grammar, but also their ability to set their thoughts in parallel. Even great minds would tend to communicate poorly ...