IN the first five parts of this series, we reviewed the various ways of achieving parallelism when constructing sentences. We saw how using the same function words can match and balance the clauses ...

THE MARK of good writers is not simply the richness of their ideas and knowledge of grammar, but also their ability to set their thoughts in parallel. Even great minds would tend to communicate poorly ...

The first two parts of this series on parallelism in writing took up two basic rules for parallel construction, namely that a statement that presents two or more grammar elements in series should ...

You are likely familiar with the story of Julius Caesar’s famously brief report following his victory at the Battle of Zela in 47 BC. According to historical accounts, he sent a strikingly concise ...