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bojan commented on the word faulty parallelism
The clauses or phrases joined by the conjunctions should have similar grammatical structures to ensure that your reader can follow the logic of your sentence and to avoid awkwardness. Consider the sentence,
My first-year philosophy professor was informative, lively, and a source of inspiration.
Notice that the first two phrases in the a, b, and c construction are adjectives, while the third is a noun phrase. This sentence suffers from faulty parallelism.
July 14, 2011