Parallelism is a literary and grammatical device that is
extremely effective in communcation as it arranges ideas in an orderly and
logical pattern, a pattern which allows the reader's or listener's mind to quickly grasp
the idea(s) that the writer states. Thus, the use of similar grammatical constructions
such as single words like nouns or adjectives, or phrases such as participial phrases,
verb phrases, and gerund phrases, or clauses enables the reader to recognize the
comparison or contrast of ideas that are being presented. This use of parallelism is
extremely important in the writing of paragraphs and essays, particularly in the thesis
statement of an essay. In addition, parallelism is also a very effective tool in
argumentative or rhetorical writing.
In the above mentioned
sentence,
People differ in
their fingerprint patterns, in how they talk, and in their dental
patterns.
the second phrase differs from the
others as it is abverbial. So, it can be corrected by repeating the word pattern which
is used in the other two phrases:
A. People
differ in their fingerprint patterns, their speech patterns, and their dental
patterns.
In English, it is not necessary to
repeat the word in as the reader understands that they are
implied. However, you may wish to include
them:
B. People differ in their fingerprint
patterns, in their speech patterns, and in their dental
patterns.
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