notes

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 *  Two or more words are using phrases
 *  Or clauses that are similar in length
 *  The gremial form are also called parallelism
 *  By convention items in series appear in parallel form
 *  **ing forms, and so on. Failure to express such items in similar grammatical form is called faulty parallelism.**
 *  Parallel structure is the term writers use to describe similar ideas expressed in similar ways.
 *  The similar ideas are running, fishing, and to ski, the three things you like to do. A more graceful and readable way to write them is to use parallel structure
 *  Readers read more fluently when they can anticipate what will come next in a sentence or passage
 *  Parallel structure fulfills what good readers anticipate, much as a well-developed paragraph fulfills the anticipation set up in the topic sentence.
 *  More specifically, a good writer uses a thesis statement or topic sentence to tell the reader what to expect next and then fulfills that commitment to the reader.
 *  When a writer presents a series of ideas, readers expect them to be stated in the same way.