Writing Handbook Exercises
 

Faulty Parallelism

Each of the sentences or pairs of sentences below contains a faulty parallelism error. Correct the error by altering the word, phrase, or clause with double underlining to match the form of the elements with single underlining in the same or adjoining sentence. Write your finished sentences in the blanks provided.

example:

Transformational leadership involves stimulating, supporting, mentoring, and an ability to coach.

Transformational leadership involves stimulating, supporting, mentoring, and coaching .

8. Canadian politicians currently have neither the interest nor are they experienced enough to make sensible decisions about national defence.