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As we begin the next essay, I wanted to bring up a minor grammatical issue: parallel structure. While I say minor, I dont mean that it is unimportant; rather, we may not have spent much time on it in the grammar module so I wanted to go over it here. I will note lapses in this on your papers.
We want our sentences - but especially our items in a series - to be parallel in structure, that is, to be of the same grammatical structure. A poker metaphor best explains the idea behind it: think 3 of a kind. If you have 3 jacks, youd win (or, at least beat 2 pair). However, if you have only 2 jacks and 1 ace, 1 seven, and 1 deuce, you better fold because your hand is not parallel in structure.
When our items in a series (or sentences) are not parallel, we call this a faulty parallelism. We see this error mostly in our Thesis Statements - in particular, the support part of our TS (remember: Topic + Main Idea + Support). The support is often items in a series.
In our EX essay, the support will be a list of reasons, and these reasons need to be parallel in structure: 3 nouns, 3 prepositional phrases, 3 "because" clauses.
I mentioned this in the PPT.
For example (pun intended), if I were writing why I hate winter, my thesis could look like this:
However, the three most significant reasons I hate winter include the snow, the cold, and the snow.
Here, we have 3 nouns (one used twice because I hate the snow!)
OR I could phrase it as so:
I hate winter because of the snow, because of the cold, and because of the snow.
Here, we have 3 "because" clauses.
As you draft your Outline Template, and especially the Thesis in your OT, pay attention to your sentence structure; errors made in the OT often find themselves repeated in the essay drafts.
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