Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Self Teaching Unit: Parallel Structure
This lesson focuses on parallel structure including how to recognize parallel structure, when parallel construction is important, and how to correct faulty parallelism. It provides examples of each and links to exercises and a final quiz.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Parallel Structure in Professional Writing
A good reference to consider when writing professionally (as in business/technical writing). Includes brief structural examples.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Identifying Parallel Structure in Sentences
After textbook and online instruction in parallel construction, learners examine "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address" and the Declaration of Independence for parallelism before writing their own paragraphs.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar and Writing: Introduction
This is an introduction to a unit on grammar and writing. It focuses on reviewing parts of speech, subject-verb agreement, parallel structure, and properly formating writing assignments using MLA guidelines. The essential questions focus...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Parallel Structure in Pairs: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses the importance of parallel construction in pairs. Parallel sentences with comparisons or contrasts are included in the lesson. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Parallel Structure in Pairs." L.9-10.1a Parallelism
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parallel Structures Quiz
Capital Community College provides this 9 question quiz to test your knowledge of solid sentence writing. Each answer will be explained when you hit the "Submit application," button at the end of the quiz.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parallel Form
This site from the Capital Community College defines the term and gives many examples of faulty parallelism and the corrected version of sentences. Includes links to a couple of quizzes at the bottom of the page. "Most of the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Parallelism
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Parallelism in writing requires aligning words, phrases, clauses, and sentences in similar grammatical structures. This lesson will provide you with strategies to help you...
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Bellevue Community College: Writing Lab: Parallelism [Pdf]
A printable guide with explanations and examples of sentences with and without parallel structure. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF] L.9-10.1a Parallelism
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn about Sam's three tricks: parallel structure, the rhetorical question, and transitional words and phrases.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details: Practice 3
Practice strategies for evaluating and revising parallel structure in an essay.
Towson University
Towson University: Parallel Sentence Structure (W/ Correlative Conj) Exercise 4
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on correcting Parallel Sentence Structure using Correlative Conjunctions.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Parallel Sentence Structure Exercise 3
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on correcting Parallel Sentence Structure.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Parallel Sentence Structure Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on Parallel Sentence Structure.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Parallelism in Writing
An explanation and examples of using parallelism in writing.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Parallelism
A list of ten situations where writing should be parallel. Each contains a link to additional information.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Sentence Structure
This lesson focuses on sentence structure including the parts of a sentence, types of sentences, sentence patterns, run-on sentences, fragments, phrases and clauses, and much more. It also includes a video, practices, and a self-check.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Avoiding Shifts
This entry focuses on avoiding shifts when writing sentences including shifts in verb tense, mood, number, person, discourse, and sentence structure. It provides explanation and examples of each type of error and explanation and examples...
Grammar Tips
Grammar Tips: Faulty Parallelism in Coordinate Elements: Short Version
This resource presents many examples of awkward and faulty parallelism which could be used for a class writing exercise, as well as for a guide to constructing correct sentences.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details (English I Writing)
You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Parallelism (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Item in a Series
This site is concerned with writing any kinds of items in a series. It verbally and graphically illustrates parallel structure, and shows how to punctuate a series.
Other
Instruct Uwo: Module 6 Sentence Structure and Style
This site discusses several characteristics of writing: coordination, subordination, parallelism, and sentence variety. Each section includes a brief discussion with examples. There are also quizzes and additional links for each section.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Usage Exercises
This is a list of links to grammar usage exercises/quizzes including verbs, subject-verb agreement, pronouns, pronoun-antecedent agreement, parallel structure, modifier placement, and miscellaneous usage errors.