The document discusses faulty parallelism and how to correct it. Faulty parallelism occurs when words in a pair or series are not placed in a matching grammatical structure. To correct it, words in a pair or series should be placed in the same grammatical structure.

1. Faulty Parallelism
Words in pairs should be placed in
parallel (matching) grammatical
structure. If they are not, the result is
faulty parallelism.
How to correct faulty parallelism
Place words in a pair or in a series in the
same grammatical structure.

2. • After the car baked in the sun for hours, the
steering wheel was hot, the seats were
sticky, and there was stuffiness in the air.
• After the car baked in the sun for hours, the
steering wheel was hot, the seats were
sticky, and the air (was) stuffy.