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Chapter Exercises



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Question 1.

How can I avoid faulty parallelism?

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Question 2.

A balanced sentence is a type of parallelism in which

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Question 3.

Please write your name and ____ a seat.

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Question 4.

The soup smells delicious _____ tastes even better.

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Question 5.

They will either drive straight home to Pittsburgh ______ stop overnight in Cincinnati.

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Question 6.

______ 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.

Hiking, fishing, and ______ are my favorite weekend activities..

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Question 8.

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.

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.
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.

What can you do to improve sentence variety?

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Question 15.

What can you do to improve sentence variety?

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Question 16.

What can you do to improve sentence variety?

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Question 17.

What can you do to improve sentence variety?

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Question 18.

What can you do to improve sentence variety?

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Question 19.

How can parallel structure be achieved?

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Question 20.

Parallel structure is needed in what?

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