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Svetach [21]
4 years ago
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What is the best definition of parallel structure?

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ohaa [14]4 years ago
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Parallel structure is the use of the same grammatical structure in a text: the correct answer is A. It does not matter then whether this structure has articles, complex phrases or adverb-verbs, as long as the structure of two or more sentences is the same!
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