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 .

9. The Northwest Passage is a difficult piece of territory to categorize, because it is neither just land nor only made of water.