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Parallelism as a mark of good writing – 4

English Plain and Simple

(2135th of a series)

WE have already taken up the two primary rules for parallel construction, namely that a sentence that presents two or more serial elements should stick to the same grammatical form all throughout, and that a parallel structure that begins with a clause should sustain that pattern all the way. We saw that by consistently observing these rules, we can build much clearer and more forceful sentences.