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 ...

The original version of this story was published on Law.Com You may have heard the term “parallelism” in high school English. It describes the repetition of a verbal pattern to create rhythm and to ...

Let me begin this discussion by pointing out that good writing doesn’t simply depend on the richness and persuasiveness of ideas nor on grammatical correctness, but also on our skill in setting ...

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 ...

The first two parts of this series on parallelism in writing took up two basic rules for parallel construction, namely that a statement that presents two or more grammar elements in series should ...

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 ...