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Scholastic

Narrative Writing

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
If you're looking to start a unit based around narrative writing, make sure to consider this resource while you're planning. This book covers five topics: writing personal narratives, writing narratives about others, writing...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Parallel Structure With Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of how to use parallel structure with clauses.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Rules for Finding and Fixing Errors in Parallel Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
Rules and examples to explain parallel structure, how to maintain it, and how to fix errors in parallelism. Click on the links for at the top to get information on each section. L.9-10.1a Parallelism
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 2: Recognizing Parallel Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice identifying errors in parallel structure by reading 20 sentences and determining if each contains an error in parallelism or not.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Parallel Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify parallel structure in the context of a sentence.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Parallelism With Prepositions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation with examples of using parallel structure with prepositions.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Faulty Parallelism in Comparisons Using Than

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Parallelism: Lists After a Colon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of how to use parallel structure in lists.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Parallelism With Either, Or

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples of using parallel structure with the correlative conjunction either or.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Parallelism With Gerunds and Infinitives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation with examples of using parallel structure with gerunds and infinitives.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Parallelism in Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples of using parallelism in writing.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parallel Form

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Parallelism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of ten situations where writing should be parallel. Each contains a link to additional information.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Parallelism With Not Only, but Also

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of parallel structure with the correlative conjunction not only but also.
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Grammar Tips

Grammar Tips: Faulty Parallelism in Coordinate Elements: Short Version

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents many examples of awkward and faulty parallelism which could be used for a class writing exercise, as well as for a guide to constructing correct sentences.
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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
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Other

Western Grammar: Module 2: Advanced Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Online grammar textbook explaining sentence structure provides definitions of different types of subordinate clauses and exercises related to this topic. There is also information on phrases and other components of sentences.
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Other

Write Content Solutions: Correlative Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about correlative conjunctions and how to use them while considering agreement and parallel structure.