Use Parallel Structure With Comparisons

Skill

Use Parallel Structure With Comparisons

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When you make a comparison, you point out the similarities or differences between two things, and those similarities or differences must be in parallel form. You can recognize a comparison showing how two things are different from the –er ... than or the more ... than.

My school is farther than your school.
To be rich is better than to be poor.
What is written is more easily understood than what is spoken.

A comparison showing how two things are the same might contain as ... as
or expressions such as the same as or similar to.

Their car is as big as a small house.
Renting those apartments costs about the same as leasing them.
The work that I did is similar to the work that you did.

Exercise

Complete the following exercises to reinforce what you’ve learned:

EXERCISE 26:

Each of the following sentences contains words or groups of words that should be parallel. Circle the word or words that indicate that the sentence should have parallel parts. Underline the parts that should be parallel.
Then indicate if each sentence is correct (C) or incorrect (I).

  1. _C_ His research for the thesis was (more useful than) hers.
  2. _I_ Dining in a restaurant is (more fun than) to eat at home.
  3. _____ I want a new secretary who is as efficient as the previous one.
  4. _____ What you do today should be the same as did yesterday.
  5. _____ This lesson is more difficult than we had before.
  6. _____ You have less homework than they do.
  7. _____ What you do has more effect than what you say.
  8. _____ Music in your country is quite similar to my country.
  9. _____ The collection of foreign journals in the university library is more extensive than the high school library.
  10. _____ How to buy a used car can be as difficult as buying a new car.

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