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ACTIVITY 3.5
How English Works:
Parallelism and Correlative Conjunctions
Learning Targets
• Analyze how writers use language to support ideas. • Write to condense ideas in a variety of ways.
correlative conjunctions
You have already learned about using compound nouns, compound verbs, prepositions, and connecting words to condense ideas. Another way to condense ideas is to use correlative conjunctions. When you use correlative conjunctions, you must also practice parallelism in order to make sure the two things you are comparing are grammatically the same. Look at the underlined words in the Language Resources box for examples of parallelism.
Language Resources: correlative conjunctions and Parallelism
HEW WoRd
ConnECTIonS
Cognates
The English word conjunction and the Spanish word conjunción are cognates. They both mean “a word that joins parts of a sentence.”
ACAdEMIC VoCABULARY
Parallelism is the use of two
or more phrases or clauses
written in the same grammatical
structure. Parallelism improves
the coherence of sentences,
and it also shows that the
parallel phrases and clauses
are of equal importance in
the sentence.
correlative conjunctions
example
How the sentence uses Parallelism
both...and
Both my sister and I prefer beets to carrots.
Both my nouns.
sister and I are
either...or
Either Yasmeen will study tonight, or she will study in the morning.
Both Yasmeen will study and she will study contain a noun and a future-tense verb.
neither...nor
Neither the dog nor the cat are interested in playing with toys.
Both the dog and the cat are nouns.
not...but
I am not a good friend but a friend nonetheless.
Both a good friend and a friend are nouns.
not only...but (also)
Amir is not only funny, but also intelligent.
Both funny and intelligent are adjectives.
Skim through the excerpt from Long Walk to Freedom, looking for sentences that use correlative conjunctions and note the parallelism. Write several examples in the chart, underline the correlative conjunctions, and explain how the sentences use parallelism.
sentence from Long Walk to Freedom
How the sentence uses Parallelism
But then I slowly saw that not only was I not free, but my brothers and sisters were not free.
Both was I not free and my brothers and sisters were not free contain a noun and a past-tense verb.
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