Parallelism

Parallelism refers to using elements in sentences that are grammatically similar or identical in structure, sound, meaning or meter. This techniques adds symmetry, effectiveness and balance to the written piece. Compare the following examples: Lacking parallelism: She likes singing, dancing, and to read. Lacking parallelism: He likes to jog and running. Parallel: She likes singing, dancing and reading. Parallel: She likes to sing, dance, and read. Parallel: He likes to jog and run. Parallel: He likes jogging and running. In the above...

Argumentation Paragraphs

 Voting is Important : What's the Point ? It's an interesting time, right before a national election. You've got party stalwarts stumping for their candidates, impossible-to-believe undecideds coyly holding out as if torn between two lovers, third-party hopefuls defiant about their "wasted" but passionate votes, and nihilists on the fringe talking conspiracy theories, false equivalency, and the pointlessness of it all. Between Facebook, Twitter, cable TV, talk radio, blogs, and online newspapers and magazines, there's no dearth of...

persuasive essay

Reasons to Use Android The recent hysteria about iPhone 6 and the new iOS is natural. Every several years, Apple announces new gadgets that promise to be better than those of the previous generation. In fact, changes are rather insignificant, because both older and newer gadgets are equally decent to deal with any tasks common users would want to accomplish. So, there are many people who prefer the alternative paradigm in the world of mobile technologies, and choose gadgets that work on the Android OS, developed by Google....

Interpreting Ideas

Interpreting Ideas Interpreting Ideas is a compound sentence is composed of at least two independent clauses. I does not require a dependent clause. The clauses are joined by a coordinating conjunction (with or without a comma), a semicolon that functions as a conjunction, a colon instead of semicolon between two sentences when the second sentence explains or illustrates the first sentence and no coordinating conjunction is being used to connect the sentences, or conjunctive adverb preceded by a semicolon. A conjunction can be used to make...

Compound sentences

Compound sentences So far, we have identified two types of sentence - simple and complex. The other main type of sentence that a writer may use is called a compound sentence. Compound sentences contain two or more pieces of information and the pieces are linked by connectives. Connectives are words such as: but whereas therefore Here are three examples of compound sentences with the connectives written in bold: The boys walked down the road and their parents waved from the house. The...