Q3 W8 USING PARALLEL STRUCTURES

QUARTER 3 WEEK 8

USING PARALLEL STRUCTURES

You've just made it this far in your learning journey. And now, in your English class, you're constantly updating your knowledge, values, and skills.

In this session, you are expected to develop one grammar skill that will help you speak and write with greater competence and confidence as you progress through the discussions and tasks.

MELC

Use parallel structures. 

Learning Objectives: 

• recognize faulty parallels in their writing;

• balance parallel items in a series;

• create parallel structure between phrases and clauses;

• use parallelism to create coherence and balance in writing; and

• use the principles of parallel structure in the chosen output.

Open Ended

What is the meaning of the word – parallel?

Parallel Structure Definition

• Parallel structure (also called parallelism) is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence.

• By making each compared item or idea in your sentence follow the same grammatical pattern, you create a parallel construction.

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• For example, using the same preposition, pronouns, verbs within the sentence. 

Parallel Structure Definition

• Parallelism is considered a great persuasive tool.

• Its repetitive quality makes the sentence or sentences symmetrical and therefore very memorable for the readers.

• Parallelism makes the idea easier for readers to process because they sense a pattern and know what to expect.

• It uses the same preposition, pronouns, verbs within the sentence. 

How do we check for parallel structure?

You just need to make sure that every part of the sentence has the same kind of structure. 

Example 1

• Mike’s favorite activities are reading, writing, and playing the tuba.

• In this sample sentence, we see that Mike’s favorite activities all match one another:

• reading, writing, and playing are all the same kind of word, verbs with an –ing ending. 

Example 2

• Mike’s favorite activities are to read, to write, and to play the tuba.

• This time, the sentence is parallel because the activities all match, to + a verb.

Example 3

• Benjamin likes to hunt, to swim and to jump.

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• Benjamin likes to hunt, to swim and to jump.

Example 4

• The following activities can be done at the mall: buying groceries, eating lunch and paying bills.

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• The following activities can be done at the mall: buying groceries, eating lunch and paying bills.

Example 5

• The teacher told them that they need to study and that they should practice their words every night.

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• The teacher told them that they need to study and that they should practice their words every night.

Multiple Choice

Parallel Structure or Parallelism is...

• repeated grammatical pattern.

• joins two complete sentences together.

• when two things happen at the same time.

• how you write the Declaration of Independence.

Multiple Choice

Parallel structure creates patterns that are easy to follow so the reader understand the main idea.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Which example shows correct parallel structure?

• Recommended exercise includes to run, to swim, and cycling.

• Recommended exercise includes running, swimming, and cycling.

• Recommended exercise includes running, swimming, and to cycle.

• Recommended exercise includes running, to swim, and cycling.

Multiple Choice

The customer service representative was asked to deal with customers kindly, professionally, and in a helpful manner.

In this sentence, how is kindly, professionally, and in a helpful correctly written?

• as it is

• kindly, professionally, and helpfully.

• kindly, to be professional, and helpful.

• customers kindly, to be professional, and to be helpful.

Open Ended

Let’s make the sentence structure parallel.

JC likes to read, to write, and dance.

Revised Sentence:

• JC likes to read, to write, and to dance.

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• JC likes reading, writing, and dancing.

Open Ended

Before you play online games, you need to do the dishes, vacuum the floor, and taking out the trash.

Revised Sentence:

• Before you play online games, you need to do the dishes, vacuum the floor, and take out the trash.

Open Ended

What I Have Learned

Complete the sentence that talk about the things you have gained from this session.

"I have learned...."

QUARTER 3 WEEK 8 TASKS

1.       What’s More (Activity 3,4 5, and 6)

2.       What I Can Do

ENJOY ANSWERING THE ACTIVITIES!

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