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 * Definition:** Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. This can happen at the word, phrase, or clause level. The usual way to join parallel structures is with the use of coordinating conjunctions such as "and" or "or."

**Example(s):** > (Tom Robbins, //Still Life with Woodpecker//, 1980) (Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, //Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising//. Simon and Schuster, 1967) (Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell in // The Life of Samuel Johnson //, 1791) (Francis Bacon, [|"Of Studies,"] 1625) (Albert Camus) > (Jane Smiley, // Good Faith // . Alfred A, Knopf, 2003) > > > ** WRONG: ** Your new training program was // stimulating // and a // challenge //. (Adjective and noun.) > > ** RIGHT: ** Your new training program was // stimulating // and // challenging //. (Two adjectives.). . . > > ~ Alex Ghandy :D > >  >
 * "It is by logic we prove, but by intuition we discover." (Leonardo da Vinci)
 * "Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
 * "A good ad should be like a good sermon; it must not only comfort the afflicted--—it also must afflict the comfortable."
 * "If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle."
 * "Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider."
 * "Those who write clearly have readers; those who write obscurely have commentators."
 * "I had been short, and now I was tall. I had been skinny and quiet and religious, and now I was good-looking and muscular. It was Sally Baldwin who brought me along, told me what to wear and do and think and say. She was never wrong; she never lost her patience. She created me, and when she was done we broke up in a formal sense, but she kept calling me."