My objections are, first, that the measure is unjust second, that it is unconstitutional. My objections are, first, the injustice of the measure second, that it is unconstitutional. You must either grant his request or incur his ill will. It was both a long ceremony and very tedious.Įither you must grant his request or incur his ill will. Many violations of this rule can be corrected by rearranging the sentence. Faulty ParallelismĬorrelative expressions (both, and not, but not only, but also either, or first, second, third and the like) should be followed by the same grammatical construction. That the writer has at least made his choice and abided by it.īy this principle, an article or a preposition applying to all the members of a series must eitherīe used only before the first term or else be repeated before each term. Unable or afraid to choose one form of expression and hold to it. The left-hand version gives the impression that the writer is undecided or timid he seems But apart from this, writers should follow carefully the principle of parallelĬonstruction. It is true that in repeating a statement in order toĮmphasize it writers may have need to vary its form.
Unskillful writers often violate this principle, from a mistaken belief that they shouldĬonstantly vary the form of their expressions. (The Library of Congress maintains a site at which you can inspect two different drafts of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's own handwriting.) Clicking on the title above will allow you to read this famous speech and view a brief "slide-show" demonstration of the parallel structures within Lincoln's famous text. Students are also familiar with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which abounds with examples of parallel form. Also in this Guide is a definition of the idea of a college, a lovely example of parallel form. Click HERE to visit a page containing the biblical passages mentioned above. Students should also visit the section on Sentence Variety, which has material on the repetition of phrases and structures.
Familiar instances from the Bible are the TenĬommandments, the Beatitudes, and the petitions of the Lord's Prayer. More readily the likeness of content and function. The likeness of form enables the reader to recognize Most of the descriptions and examples in this section are taken from William Strunk's venerable Elements of Style, which is maintained online by the Bartleby Project at Columbia University: This principle, that of parallel construction, requires that expressions of similar content andįunction should be outwardly similar.
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