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Sentence Skills, Form A book cover
Sentence Skills, Form A, 7/e
John Langan, Atlantic Cape Community College

Faulty Parallelism

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Activity 1:

Directions: Find a website that discusses faulty parallelism. Would you feel comfortable using that website to study for an exam? Why or why not? Is the site as reliable as, say, your textbook?
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Activity 2:

For more help, check out the Parallelism Workshop at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs' Writing Center.