Editing Parallelism (grammar) (section)

==Examples==
Compare the following examples:
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! Lacking parallelism !! Parallel
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| "She likes cooking, jogging, and ''to read''."
| "She likes cooking, jogging, and reading."

"She likes to cook, jog, and read."
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| "He likes ''to play baseball'' and running."
| "He likes playing baseball and running."

"He likes to play baseball and to run."
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| "The dog ran across the yard, jumped over the fence, and ''sprinted away''."
| "The dog ran across the yard, jumped over the fence, and sprinted down the alley."
|}

All of the above examples are grammatically correct, even if they lack parallelism: "cooking", "jogging", and "to read" are all grammatically valid conclusions to "She likes", for instance. The first nonparallel example has a mix of [[gerund]]s and [[infinitive]]s. To make it parallel, the sentence can be rewritten with all gerunds or all infinitives. The second example pairs a gerund with a regular noun. Parallelism can be achieved by converting both terms to gerunds or to infinitives. The final phrase of the third example does not include a definite location, such as "across ''the yard''" or "over ''the fence''"; rewriting to add one completes the sentence's parallelism.