IN the first five parts of this series, we reviewed the various ways of achieving parallelism when constructing sentences. We saw how using the same function words can match and balance the clauses ...

Last week’s discussion emphasized that to achieve truly good writing in English, we should aim for parallelism every time we make statements that present several grammar elements in a series. Elements ...

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 ...