Talk:Parallelism (grammar)

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More properly, this entry should be Parallelism (rhetoric) and a separate entry made for Parallelism (grammar). Or it could be one heading with two subheadings.

I will compose entry on grammatical parallelism and revisit the problem when is written. Samwisebruce 19:42, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

- I agree with your ideas. I can go ahead and rework this article to more closely reflect parallelism (grammar) and move its current contents to an article called parallelism (rhetoric).Mazeface 22:33, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Example

I fail to see why "You must take particular care in the preparation of your materials and methods, your]

Typo

Maybe I'm dumb, but I read the article twice, and I still can't figure out what parallelism is. Also, you have a sentence fragment: "Unless otherwise stated." I'm not sure if that was supposed to be a clever example of parallelism, but it would be nice if somebody fixed it. -- Adjwilley (talk) 01:29, 3 October 2011 (UTC) True... it would![reply]

Merger

The article "Parallelism (rhetoric)" explains this subject much better. Is anyone still working to merge the two articles? If not, I'll move it myself. W.andrea (talk) 18:41, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A Query

I don't know much about wikipedia so I'm sorry if this is wrongly presented or in the wrong section, but is the example "Corey admires people who can be affected by puberty in other words Corey hates puberty because he is a 10 year old kid" an outcome of vandalism? Since I don't see any parallelism in it and the choice of topic seems inappropriate for a grammar article

Missing example

"Like father, like son" is shown to be incorrect but unlike the other examples given, no corrected version is offered. I'm going to be honest, while I saw the errors in the other examples right away, I'm not 100% sure what's wrong with it. And I'm an experienced book and magazine editor with 22 years experience so I actually have professional curiosity as to what might be wrong with it and what "Like father, like son" - a very common phrase that I have used myself in printed articles - looks like if it satisfies the rules of this piece of grammar. 68.146.52.234 (talk) 04:26, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:BOLD I've deleted the one example that doesn't have an explanation. I ran it by an English professor who actually specializes in grammar and he says there was nothing wrong with the phrase in relation to the topic at hand. There are plenty of other examples on this page; we don't need one that confuses the issue. If the prof is wrong on this, please put it back but if you do, please include a clear explanation of what is wrong with the sentence. 68.146.52.234 (talk) 13:16, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]