Wednesday, July 23, 2008

My Real-life Example of Parallelism

This comes from the New York Times article "New Scrutiny as Immigrants Die in Custody."  

Original text:

"Complaints focus on a lack of independent oversight and failures to enforce standards for medical care, suicide prevention and access to legal help."

This statement contains a correlative conjunction that can be rewritten with parallelism:

"Complaints focus on a lack of independent oversight and [on a] failure to enforce standards for medical care, suicide prevention and access to legal help."

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