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Incorrect: You can either pay the service fee now, or the bill can be paid later. Correct: The service fee can be paid now , or the bill can be paid later. Incorrect : Please place the football on the counter or you can put it in the shed. Correct : Please place the football on the counter or in the shed. Correct : My parents did not approve of what I did nor what I said. Incorrect: Arts and crafts projects encourage kids to be creative, to be patient, and allows them to feel a sense of accomplishment.

Correct: Arts and crafts projects encourage kids to be creative, to be patient, and to appreciate a job well done. Correct: Arts and crafts projects encourage kids to be creative, to be patient, and to accomplish tasks that can boost their self-esteem. Correct: Arts and crafts projects encourage kids to be creative, to be patient, and to take pride in their work. Incorrect: To complete this ceiling fan installation, you will need a screwdriver, wrench, a pair of pliers, two standard light bulbs, electrical tape, and patience.

Correct: To complete this ceiling fan installation, you will need a screwdriver, a wrench, a pair of pliers, two standard light bulbs, electrical tape, and patience.

Incorrect: The best American western movies look as though they were filmed on location in the American west, but Europe was the shooting location for many of them. Correct: The best American western movies look as though they were filmed on location in the American west, but many were actually filmed far away in Europe. Incorrect: Many controversial works of literature have been banned from school libraries.

Correct: Many controversial works of literature have been banned from school libraries. Salinger; and even the Bible. Sloan, Gene. Correct : The vessel also has a 1,seat theater that will show the Broadway musical Grease. Donate Login Sign up Search for courses, skills, and videos. Arts and humanities Grammar Syntax: conventions of standard English Dangling modifiers and parallel structure. Practice: Dangling modifiers. Parallel structure.

Practice: Parallel structure. Current timeTotal duration Google Classroom Facebook Twitter. Video transcript - [Voiceover] Hello, grammarians. Hello, Rosie. Make an appointment. Meet our consultants. Student resources. Bridge Test. SPEAK test. 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. Alfred A. Knopf, A cluster of amplifiers spread the theme of love over everything and everybody; the mild breeze spread the dust over everything and everybody. Next morning, in the Lafayette Hotel in Portland, I went down to breakfast and found May Craig looking solemn at one of the tables and Mr.

Murray, the auctioneer, looking cheerful at another. White, "Goodbye to Forty-Eighth Street. Harper, To create parallel structure, keep in mind that adjectives should be paralleled by adjectives, nouns by nouns, dependent clauses by dependent clauses, and so on. Two adjectives, stimulating and challenging. William A.



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