Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Exercise 2: Recognizing Parallel Structure
Practice identifying errors in parallel structure by reading 20 sentences and determining if each contains an error in parallelism or not.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Exercise 3: Recognizing Parallel Structure
Practice using parallel structure by filling in the blanks in 20 sentences maintaining parallelism.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Exercise 4: Maintaining Parallel Structure
Practice using parallel structure by filling in the blanks in 20 sentences maintaining parallelism.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Parallel Structure
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify parallel structure in the context of a sentence.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Sentence Structure
This lesson focuses on sentence structure including the parts of a sentence, types of sentences, sentence patterns, run-on sentences, fragments, phrases and clauses, and much more. It also includes a video, practices, and a self-check.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Parallelism With Prepositions
An explanation with examples of using parallel structure with prepositions.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar and Writing: Introduction
This is an introduction to a unit on grammar and writing. It focuses on reviewing parts of speech, subject-verb agreement, parallel structure, and properly formating writing assignments using MLA guidelines. The essential questions focus...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Faulty Parallelism in Comparisons Using Than
This page focuses on correcting mistakes in parallel structure when using the word "than" in a comparison. It also covers how to correct the parallelism.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Parallelism: Lists After a Colon
An explanation of how to use parallel structure in lists.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Parallelism With Either, Or
An explanation and examples of using parallel structure with the correlative conjunction either or.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Exercise 1: Recognizing Parallel Structure
A twenty-question quiz that asks students to choose which sentences are correct and which have errors in parallel structure.
Other
Grinnell College: The Function of Word Order and Parallel Structure
A fairly simple demonstration of the importance of word order in English sentences, with several examples. Also, a brief explanation of parallel structure, with examples. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Parallelism With Gerunds and Infinitives
An explanation with examples of using parallel structure with gerunds and infinitives.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Parallelism in Writing
An explanation and examples of using parallelism in writing.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Item in a Series
This site is concerned with writing any kinds of items in a series. It verbally and graphically illustrates parallel structure, and shows how to punctuate a series.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parallel Form
This site from the Capital Community College defines the term and gives many examples of faulty parallelism and the corrected version of sentences. Includes links to a couple of quizzes at the bottom of the page. "Most of the...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parallel Structures Quiz
Capital Community College provides this 9 question quiz to test your knowledge of solid sentence writing. Each answer will be explained when you hit the "Submit application," button at the end of the quiz.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Parallel Sentence Structure Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on correcting Parallel Sentence Structure.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Parallel Sentence Structure Exercise 3
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on correcting Parallel Sentence Structure.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Parallel Sentence Structure Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on Parallel Sentence Structure.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Parallelism
A list of ten situations where writing should be parallel. Each contains a link to additional information.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Grammar Evaluation 1 [Pdf]
This is a 24-question, grammar test requiring students to correct sentences with miscellaneous usage errors.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Grammar Evaluation 2 [Pdf]
This is a 22-question grammar test requiring students to correct sentences with miscellaneous usage errors.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Grammar Evaluation 3 [Pdf]
This is a 22-question, grammar test requiring students to correct sentences with miscellaneous usage errors.