Parallel Structure

Parallel Structure

by Haylie Bonneville

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that maintains a parallel structure throughout.

• Elliot could see the marketplace stretching out before him: merchants hawked goods, families browsed stalls, and gossip was spread by teenagers.

• Elliot could see the marketplace stretching out before him: merchants hawked goods, families were browsing stalls, and teenagers to spread gossip.

• Elliot could see the marketplace stretching out before him: merchants hawked goods, families browsed stalls, and teenagers spread gossip.

• Elliot could see the marketplace stretching out before him: merchants hawked goods, families browsed stalls, and teenagers were spreading gossip.

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that maintains a parallel structure throughout.

• Vianne roasted the beans, ground them up, and a cup of coffee was brewed.

• Vianne roasted the beans, ground them up, and brewed a cup of coffee.

• Vianne roasted the beans, grinds them up, and brewed a cup of coffee.

• Vianne roasted the beans, grinds them up, and brewing a cup of coffee.

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that maintains a parallel structure throughout.

• The invaders torched the village, looted the treasury, and stole all our sheep.

• The invaders torched the village, to loot the treasury, and stole all our sheep.

• The invaders torched the village, looted the treasury, and had stolen all our sheep.

• The invaders torch the village, looted the treasury, and had stolen all our sheep.

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that maintains a parallel structure throughout.

• Clarisse doesn’t knit, nor is she sewing.

• Clarisse doesn’t knit, nor does she sew.

• Clarisse doesn’t knit, and sewing is not a thing she does, either.

• Clarisse doesn’t knit, nor is she sewing.