The document discusses parallelism, which is the balance of words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence. It provides rules for achieving parallel structure, such as using the same grammatical form for items in a series. Examples are given of proper and faulty parallelism, along with corrections. The document aims to teach the proper use of parallel structure in sentences.

1. PARALLELISM
Parallelism is the balance of two or more words, phrases or clauses in a sentence.
Rules in Attaining Parallelism
1. Attain parallelism through series of words in the same grammatical kind/ structure.
(Series of gerunds, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, infinitives, participle, etc.)
Our teacher is kind, tall, and intelligent. (Series of adjectives)
2. Words being compared using “as” and those that are connected by a conjunction must
have the same grammatical structure.
Tongue is as sharp as knife.
(“Tongue” and “knife” are both nouns compared with the use of “as”)
Krizzy is writing and memorizing a poem.
(“Writing” and “memorizing” are both gerunds connected by the conjunction “and”)
Correct the following faulty parallelism.
1. Singing, dance, to travel are my hobbies.
2. His phone is better and expensive than mine.
3. She is collect and experimenting insects.
4. Mel Tiangco and him are both news anchors.
5. We went to the mall, church and to the office.
6. King is the best, the most intelligent and the tall of them all.
7. The book is older but useful.
8. Mother cooked and serve fried chicken to the visitors yesterday.
9. I am cleaning the room while listen to the radio.
10.Joel and Jenny like to play chess and watch movie.