Parallelism Practice
Circle the launch phrase and underline the beginning of each item in the list that follows. Are these items parallel? If not, fix them!
- When finals week started, Joh needed to study for her Shakespeare test, write a history essay, and had geometry proofs to work through.
- Grandma always makes the same Thanksgiving feast: her famous sweet potato casserole, buttery green beans, and she cooks the most succulent turkey in the world.
- Good students study hard, read thoroughly, and practice relentlessly.
- The New Year's celebration will include a fantastic parade, fun raffles and games, and will even have a crab buffet.
- Inside the La Brea Tar Pits, archaeologists have found remain of giant sloths, dire wolves, and bones from wooly mammoths.
- Los Angeles has no professional football team, but is loyal to the Dodgers, loves the Kings, and the Championship winning Lakers.
- I think that there is snow in the mountains so we can take a ride up to play in the snow, do some sledding, and learn to ski.
- The charm of Lofting’s book lies in the humorous reversal of roles -- the animals guide, assist, and generally they take care of the helpless humans.
- Inside famed actor Lily Langtry’s private railroad car were a drawing room with a piano, bath fixtures of silver, and there were draperies trimmed with Brussels lace.
- An economical and efficient recycling center is accessible to the public, responsive to community needs, and complies with current federal regulations governing waste disposal.