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Chapter Exercises


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Question 1
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How can I avoid faulty parallelism?
 
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Question 2
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A balanced sentence is a type of parallelism in which
 
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Question 3
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Please write your name and ____ a seat.
 
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Question 4
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The soup smells delicious _____ tastes even better.
 
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Question 5
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They will either drive straight home to Pittsburgh ______ stop overnight in Cincinnati.
 
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Question 6
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______ I am seeing things, or I need to wake up from a nightmare; is that really my ex-boyfriend over there?
 
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Question 7
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Hiking, fishing, and ______ are my favorite weekend activities..
 
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Question 8
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I neither watch television ______ listen to music because much of today's entertainment is too explicit for my innocent eyes and ears.
 
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Question 9
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I am keeping to my appointment schedule today, _____ to meet with all my clients, and hoping to make it to the grocery store because my refrigerator contains nothing but ketchup and spoiled milk.
 
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Question 10
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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 11
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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 12
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Open Hint for Question 12 in a new window		 Which one of the following sentences has a problem with parallelism?
 
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Question 13
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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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Question 14
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What can you do to improve sentence variety?
 
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Question 15
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What can you do to improve sentence variety?
 
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Question 16
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What can you do to improve sentence variety?
 
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Question 17
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What can you do to improve sentence variety?
 
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Question 18
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What can you do to improve sentence variety?
 
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Question 19
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How can parallel structure be achieved?
 
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Question 20
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Parallel structure is needed in what?
 
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