Parallelism: The secret to great writing
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- Parallelism or parallel structure is one of the secrets of great writing. It gives greater balance and power to the way you communicate. It will help you get higher grades, improve your job prospects, and look more professional. In this lesson, I explain all about parallelism -- what it is and how to use it correctly. This easy but important lesson will take your English to a higher level. Follow up by watching my lesson on the Magic of 3 to strengthen your English even more: • Improve your English w...
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Hi. I'm Rebecca from engVid. This lesson is for you if you want to learn how to communicate more powerfully in just a short time. This lesson is about something called: "Parallelism" or "Parallel Structure". Now, in case you've never heard of it, or if you've heard of it but you're not sure what it is, I just want to tell you that it's something really important, especially in academic circles or in the business world. All right? And also socially. So, whether you're speaking, or whether you're writing, this principle of parallelism will help you to communicate more effectively.
So, first of all, what is parallelism? So, it's a speaking or writing technique in which you communicate more powerfully by balancing different parts of your sentence, and I'm going to show you lots of examples so you understand exactly. So, when we create a sentence that has parallel structure, it means that when we have a list of items in our sentence, all of the forms of speech should be the same. For example, you have verbs, verbs, verbs; nouns and nouns; adjectives and adjectives; adverbs and adverbs. Now, that seems obvious, but in real life when people speak and write, they don't always do that. So I'm going to show you: "What are the benefits of using parallelism?" and also exactly how to use them in a sentence.
So, some of the benefits that you will get when you start creating sentences with parallel structure are that your sentences will have more weight, they'll be more balanced, they'll have more rhythm to them, they'll have more style, more clarity (they'll be more clear), and also you'll be able to emphasize things more. And as a result of all that, your speaking or your writing will be much more dramatic and much more powerful. And you may not realize why, but it's really important that this parallel structure exists. Now, in addition, it's not just something to make it better, it's not just something to improve your communication. In academic circles, if you don't follow these parallel structure rules, it's actually considered a mistake in writing; it's considered very weak writing, bad writing, poor writing, and you will get lower grades as a result of that. Okay? So it's really important, especially if you're in the academic world or writing anything serious or in the business world, to write this way.
Let's look at some simple examples first. Okay? So, this sentence, the first one: "Janet sings and dances." So here, what do we see? We see verbs and verbs: "Janet sings and dances." If somebody didn't write this sentence properly, they might write: "Janet sings and is dancing." Now, here it didn't match because this was present simple, so this should be a verb in the present simple; they should both be verbs, they should both be in the same tense, and so on. Okay?
Let's look at more examples. "We enjoy reading and cooking." Here we have two gerunds: "reading", "cooking". Next: "I like to watch movies and to travel abroad." Okay? Now, you see how that seems really balanced? Okay? So we have: "to watch movies", so we have an infinitive and a noun, and "to travel abroad". "To travel", infinitive and a... Well, it's not a noun, but it's like a noun, it functions like a noun.
Next: "The reasons for my view are political, cultural, and social." So here we have three adjectives. Now, up til now we had two, now we have three. And if you've watched my earlier lesson on: "The Power of Three" or "The Magic of Three", you will know that this is really special. This is like parallelism on steroids. This is like the best kind of writing you can do, and a lot of very famous leaders and writers write this way, using parallelism in threes to make things much more effective. So, if you haven't watched that other lesson, I will tell you where you can get it; it's called: "The Magic of Three" on our website. So: "The reasons for my view are political, cultural, and social." Three adjectives.
"The police acted quickly and carefully." Okay? So we have here: "quickly", "carefully", two adverbs. And last: "We enjoy comedies, dramas, and documentaries." So you have here three nouns. Right? So that's what's important: nouns with nouns, adverbs with adverbs, adjectives with adjectives - you get the idea. Okay? Now, if you get the idea, work with me, stay with me. […]
This one change can make a huge difference in your English! To speak or write more powerfully for academic or professional success, you can contact me here for private online training: www.rebeccaezekiel.com/
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Dear Rebecca, Wish I had a teacher like you 60 years ago. Proper use of written language and its punctuation are essential to clear and cogent thinking. In addition, writing can also be therapy, and a form of meditation. Keep up your good work, Ernest, NYC
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These are fantastic videos that highlight quality writing skills!
On a side note, I’m not sure the use of the Oxford comma in a series is consistent in the examples in this video and others I’ve watched.
> We invited our neighbor, our doctor and our favorite journalist to dinner. (no comma before the ‘and’ shows that 3 people were invited).
> We invited our neighbor, our doctor, and our favorite journalist to dinner. ( two people were invited - a comma before the ‘and’ is actually the second comma showing that our neighbor is our our doctor).
Given these two potential readings, I’m not for systematically using the Oxford comma or a comma before ‘and’ / ‘or’ in a series.
My hobbies are eating my family and not using commas.
Thank you, Rebecca. You are eloquent, calm, beautiful, and inspiring. I’m helping my son do his homework, and come to your video to check on parallelism. He chose parallelism for “we’ll bring back our jobs, we will bring back our borders, we will bring back our wealth, and we will bring back our dreams.” I guess he chose correctly.😁
May you live long and teach us English like this.... I wish you were my teacher🤩 teaching style is excellent
Thank you for your wonderful video on parallel structure. I am an English tutor and when I write, I tend to use parallel structure automatically. Yet, I have never fully understood the concept. This break down of the technique and the rule helped me understand it much better. I can now pass this on when I am tutoring.
I'd never known about this parallelism if you haven't done this lesson. I'm so grateful to you Ma'am. I keeo wondering why I can't speak or write appropriately and you just gave me the answer.
The idea of parallelism or rather the word "parallelism is new to me tho I've used it in writing all the time.Thanks Rebecca.Lifelong learning.I did notice that the word "abroad" on the whiteboard has a missing "a"😁The sentences given later(to be corrected) were very good testing examples.Thanks, Rebecca😘
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I admire your teaching technique; making the best use of it.
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Dear teacher, I love your way of explaning grammatical points.
such a great lesson, not only for students but for teachers of English too. fabulous!
I am a beginner and still struggling for knowing better English but I am very impressed by your lesson and pronunciation. mam you are a great teacher.hat's of you. if I grammatically error my sentences please pardon me. I am very very impressed......... honestly say.thanks.
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An important lesson overlooked by many grammarians and non-native teachers. Surely this lesson helps many. Thanks!
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I never heard of this, but when editing, I always refine in accordance with this format, simply because it sounds better. This is a testament to the validity of your claim that this technique will intuitively land more agreeably with the prospective reader, whether they’re specifically looking for its usage or not.
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Because of this pandemic period we have to learn online and independently, and I also have to make a presentation about this prallelism. And just by listening to your video, I think I understand enough and are ready for the presentation later. Thank you very much for the video material, I will always support you.
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Wow, never heard about parallelism before, it's a very powerful way of writing and speaking, I need to do some practice I like it so much! Many thanks teacher, for showing me this amazing way to push my English to a higher level! 😊🌹
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I found the video very helpful! I had never heard about parallelism before, but I realised that many times I struggled to write a sentence in a way it sounded good and eventually couldn't, because I didn't know what the problem was. Now I know that when sentences don't sound good is probably because of parallelism missing.
However, I don't like the way the fifth sentence turned out after "parallelising" it: I preferred the way it originally was. It may sound better if written this way instead: "the job demands professional qualifications, leadership skills and working experience abroad." (It's still not "parallelised", I'm aware of it, but still sounds better than the suggested one to me).
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As someone who marks essays I can tell you this is the most common problem I encounter.
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