Co-ordinating units of writing must all be of the same grammatical kind. This is what is referred to as preserving parallel structure. For instance, nouns must match with nouns, adjectives with ...

DISCUSSED in the preceding five chapters were the consistent use of parallel structures as key to writing more readable, more forceful, and more polished sentences. Also, for clearer and more cohesive ...

As emphasized in the preceding chapter, the basic rule for parallel construction is to never mix grammatical forms when presenting similar or related ideas. A sentence that presents two or more serial ...