Parallelism Formatting Your Thesis Statement Parallel Structure Items

Parallel Structure • Items listed in a series must have parallel structure • Looks

Here is an example: Shane ate the pizza, wiped his lips, and burped with

Don’t create problems by mixing grammatical elements • Non-parallel structure looks like this: Shane

The problem looks like this: Shane ate the pizza, wiped his lips, and burping

Item 1 A. Barking dogs, kittens that were meowing, and squawking parakeets greet the

Item 2 A. During class, Samuel Antonio spent hishis time flirting with Brittney, eating

Item 3 A. Trey Alex looked everywhere for his math book— under the bed,

Item 4 A. The managerwantedstaffwho arrived on on time, smiled time, at the customers,

Item 5 A. After giving Jeremy Kameronher herphonenumber, Felicia had to tolerate his late

Your Turn! • Switch papers with someone in the class. • Locate your partner’s

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Parallelism Formatting Your Thesis Statement

Parallel Structure • Items listed in a series must have parallel structure • Looks like this: Shane , , and .

Here is an example: Shane ate the pizza, wiped his lips, and burped with contentment. Ate = past tense verb; wiped = past tense verb; and burped = past tense verb.

Don’t create problems by mixing grammatical elements • Non-parallel structure looks like this: Shane , , and .

The problem looks like this: Shane ate the pizza, wiped his lips, and burping with contentment. Now look what you’ve done! Ate and wiped = past tense verbs, but burping = present participle!

Item 1 A. Barking dogs, kittens that were meowing, and squawking parakeets greet the pet shop visitors. B. Barking dogs, meowing kittens, andand squawking parakeets greet squawking parakeets the pet greet shop visitors. the pet shop C. visitors. Dogs that bark, kittens that meow, and C. Dogs parakeets that bark, squawking kittensgreet that meow, the pet and shop visitors. parakeets squawking greet the pet shop visitors.

Item 2 A. During class, Samuel Antonio spent hishis time flirting with Brittney, eating candy, and doodling on the on assignment the assignment sheet. B. During class, Samuel Antonio spent his time flirting with Brittney, he ate candy, and doodling on the assignment sheet. C. During class, Samuel Antonio spent his time to flirt with Brittney, to eat candy, and doodling on the assignment sheet.

Item 3 A. Trey Alex looked everywhere for his math book— under the bed, on his desk, and he searched inside the refrigerator. B. Trey Alex looked everywhere for his math book— viewing under the bed, searching on his desk, and inside the refrigerator. C. Trey Alex lookedeverywhereforfor hishis math book— under thebed, on onhis hisdesk, and inside thethe refrigerator.

Item 4 A. The managerwantedstaffwho arrived on on time, smiled time, at the customers, and didn’t and snack didn’t on the chickenon snack nuggets. the chicken nuggets. B. The manager wanted staff who arrived on time, would be smiling at the customers, and would not be snacking on the chicken nuggets. C. The manager wanted staff who arrived on time, smiled at the customers, and no snacking on the chicken nuggets.

Item 5 A. After giving Jeremy Kameronher herphonenumber, Felicia had to tolerate his late night calls, silly conversations, and stupid conversations, requests for her homework. and requests formath her math homework. B. After giving her phone number, to giving Kameron Jeremy her number, Feliciahad tolerate his late night calls, the fact carried to tolerate night the that fact he that he on silly conversations, and requests forand her requests math carried on stupid conversations, for homework. her math homework. C. her phone number, to C. After giving Kameron Jeremy her number, Feliciahad tolerate being woken up late night, having silly to tolerate being woken up at late at night, having conversations, and he constantly requested her math stupid conversations, and he constantly homework. her math homework.

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Your Turn! • Switch papers with someone in the class. • Locate your partner’s thesis statement. It should be the last sentence in the introduction paragraph. • They should have an opinion and three subtopics listed. • Their subtopics should be in parallel structure. If they are not, highlight the part that makes it unparalleled.