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This week: Keep your lists parallel

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The most frequent grammatical problem I encounter in clients' writing is nonparallel lists. Here's an example: 

  1. This item is a complete sentence
  2. A noun
  3. Ends with a verb phrase
The best short discussion of parallelism I've seen was written by Marilynne Rudick for the blog Writing Matters. I encourage you to have a look at it.
This week, as you revise, make sure that any series or list (whether as running text or as a bulleted or numbered list) is grammatically parallel.

 

Full post as published by Manage Your Writing on March 28, 2011 (boomark / email).

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