“The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what happened here.” Changing just a few words in this memorable sentence from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg ...

To complete our discussions on parallel construction, we’ll take up three more techniques for achieving structural balance and better rhythm for our sentences: (1) When a sentence begins with a clause ...

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 ...

As emphasized in the preceding chapter, the basic rule for parallel construction is to never mix grammatical forms when presenting similar or related ideas. A sentence that presents two or more serial ...