Grammar faulty parallelism
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The document discusses faulty parallelism and how to correct it. Faulty parallelism occurs when words in a pair or series are not placed in a matching grammatical structure. To correct it, words in a pair or series should be placed in the same grammatical structure.
Grammar faulty parallelism
- 1. Faulty Parallelism Words in pairs should be placed in parallel (matching) grammatical structure. If they are not, the result is faulty parallelism. How to correct faulty parallelism Place words in a pair or in a series in the same grammatical structure.
- 2. • After the car baked in the sun for hours, the steering wheel was hot, the seats were sticky, and there was stuffiness in the air. • After the car baked in the sun for hours, the steering wheel was hot, the seats were sticky, and the air (was) stuffy.