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PARALLELISM AS A MARK OF GOOD ENGLISH WRITING
The mark of good writers isn’t simply the richness of their ideas and their
grammatical correctness but their ability to set their thoughts in parallel. This
means the orderly positioning of identical syntactical elements in a sentence to
ensure clarity and to avoid confusion and distraction. Parallelism ensures that in a
sentence, all grammatical elements set in a series should have the same form and
structure. This five-part intensive review in the Forum is designed to strengthen
one’s skills in achieving parallelism in English prose.

• Part I - Introduction to Parallelism
  
  

• Part II - Setting Our Thoughts in Parallel
  
  

• Part III - Sustaining Parallel Patterns All the Way

• Part IV - Four Specific Applications of the Parallelism Rules


• Part V - Harnessing Parallelism for Structural Balance
  

Do you have any question about the English language—its vocabulary, its grammar and usage, its construction and structure, or its idioms and other peculiarities? Or do you have the knowledge or expertise—and, of course, the time—to help English-language learners seeking to understand and navigate these aspects of the language better?

Or maybe you happen to be just a concerned English user disturbed by the misuse of English—whether subtle or blatant—in the publications or books that you read or by the people whom you deal with, or perhaps dismayed by how badly English is spoken in a TV or radio program or some other public platform?

If so, then Jose Carillo’s English Forum is the perfect place for you. Here, freely and at any time of the day, you can:

• ask questions about any aspect of English that confuses or mystifies you,
• give advice to people asking for informal instruction on the correct or better use of English, or
• simply relate your experience or encounter with English misuse at work, in school, or in the mass media.

Here, for starters, are some sample questions that will be most welcome in this Forum:

1. Is “not unless” a redundant phrase?
2. Is the phrase “most often than not” correct usage?
3. Which is correct, “on behalf” or “in behalf”?
4. When do you use “would” and when do you use “will”?
5. Do you say “Best wishes!” to an ailing person?

If you want to know the answers to these questions now, Click here.

This Forum will be focusing exclusively on English and its usage, and aims to be a vibrant venue for healthy and civilized discussions, not angry or violent ones. In the process it hopes to generate clarity and light, not semantic heat and verbal pyrotechnics, over English. It will therefore give no room to unbridled rants—whether pro or con—on any issue about English and its uses.

The English this Forum will be using, by the way, is the American standar, but the Forum won’t be averse to questions or explanations about how American English differs from British English or from other English standards or variants.

So, if everything’s clear to you now on what this website is all about, simply click on to see what Jose Carillo’s English Forum has to offer for you. Good luck in your continuing quest for better English!

Joe Carillo