English 8

• Parallel


  An adjective that means being everywhere equidistant or the same distance apart at every point and not intersecting
• Parallelism


  In English grammar, also known as parallel structure, it is when phrases in a sentence have similar or the same grammatical structure
• Parallelism provides a phrase with balance and clarity, and serves to give phrases a pattern and rhythm</b>
• Parallelism is the repetition of two grammatical forms in two or more parts of a sentence
• Determining which sentence is correct

  • It is better to give than receiving
  • It is better to give than to receive
• Determining which sentence is correct

  • Simple is beauty
  • Simplicity is beauty
• The correct answers in the sentence pairs are those with parallel structure
• To achieve parallelism, there must be the same grammatical structure among the elements in the sentences
• Sentences are best understood when structured in a grammatically parallel fashion
• Parallelism creates readable and understandable passages, and is used in songs, poems, speeches, and other forms of writing