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• My father, a banker, earns a lot of money every year.

• After his exams Tom will take a trip by a boat.

• On January 1st, the new year will begin.

• The two men are in a hurry.

• Parallel structure means expressing ideas of equal importance with the same grammatical structures.

  
  

• Parallel structure in a series

• Use parallel structure with coordinate conjunctions

• Use parallel structure with paired conjunctions

Parallelism looks like this :

They, 🍎,🍎, and 🍎

not like this:

They,🍎,🍎, and 🍟

Jika komponen pertama adalah Noun, maka bentuk selanjutnya juga harus dalam bentuk noun

jika komponen pertamanya verb in past tense, selanjutnya juga harus dalam bentuk yang sama.

👎Darwin ate the pizza, wiped his lips, and burping with contentment.

👍Darwin ate the pizza, wiped his lips, and burped with contentment.

• Example of two nouns joined by a coordinate conjunction:

  She is not a teacher but a lawyer.

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• Example of two verbs joined by a coordinate conjunction:

  You can stay home or go to the movies with us.

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• Example of two adjectives joined by a coordinate conjunction:

  My boss is sincere and nice.

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both... and, either.. . or, neither.. . nor, and not only ... but also require parallel structures.

• He is not only intelligent but also creative 

• The tickets are neither in my pocket nor in my purse.

• I know both where you went and what you did.

👎I want both this book or that one.

👎Either Sam nor Sue is taking the course.

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👍I want both this book and that one.

👍Either Sam or Sue is taking the course.

More...than

-er...than

less..,than

as...as

the same...as

similar..to

• My school is farther than your school.

• To be rich is better than to be poor.

• What is written is more easily understood than what is spoken.

• Their car is as big as a small house.

• Renting those apartments costs about the same as leasing them.

• The work that I did is similar to the work that you did.