Academic Writing exercise (Parallel Structure)

What is parallel structure?

• relating sentences to the topic

• using similar word patterns

• comparing two or more things

Use parallel structure ...........

• with multiple subjects.

• in run-on sentences.

• in lists and comparisons.

Which words can help you identify sentences that need to have parallel structure?

• subjects and verbs

• conjunctions in lists and comparison words

• objects and prepositions

Which sentence has parallel structure?

• Adults, teenagers, and children communicate differently.

• Adults, teenagers, and those who are young communicate differently.

• People who are older, when people are teenagers, and children communicate differently.

Which sentence has parallel structure?

• Teenage girls often communicate through notes and through text messages.

• Teenage girls often communicate through notes and sending text messages.

• Teenage girls often communicate by writing notes and to send text messages.

Which sentence has parallel structure?

• Teenage boys communicate differently than girls who are teens.

• Teenage boys communicate differently than teenage girls.

• Teenage boys communicate differently talking to girls.

Girls often develop language skills sooner_________ .

Choose the option that gives this sentence parallel structure.

• than boys develop slowly

• that boys

• than boys

In girls, the part of the brain that controls expression, verbal skill, and _________ develops earlier.

Choose the option that gives this sentence parallel structure.

• that is in control of social behavior

• social behavior

• to control social behavior

Research shows that girls use the abstract part of the brain when processing language verbally or _______.

Choose the option that gives this sentence parallel structure.

• with visibility

• vision

• visually

Gender studies is a field that is complicated, that is complex, and that is interesting.

Which words can be removed from the underlined part of this sentence?

• and, that

• that, is

• complex, interesting